Alpine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. House.
Alpine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-footing-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alpine Cottage, Williams Hill, Wootton
- OS grid reference
- SP 438 194
- Coordinates
- 51.87231, -1.36424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alpine Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled stone slate roof. The ridge stack is made of stone and finished in 20th-century brick, while there is also a mid to late 19th-century stack at the front. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high with a three-window range. There are flat stone arches above a 20th-century glazed door located to the right of centre and 20th-century two-light casements. The first floor has similar casements with timber lintels above them. Inside, the cottage has chamfered beams and is noted for its butt-purlin roof. The plan is unusual, with a large hall or kitchen to the right and a small buttery or possible sleeping chamber.
Local climate
Alpine Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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