Field Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1988. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Field Cottage

WRENN ID
guardian-jade-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Field Cottage, Whitehill, Tackley, OX5 3AB
OS grid reference
SP 483 195
Coordinates
51.87284, -1.29939
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Field Cottage is an early 17th-century cottage, originally two dwellings, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries, and a late 20th-century extension to the rear and raising of the roof. It is constructed of limestone rubble, with a 20th-century cement tile roof and an old brick central chimney stack. The cottage follows a two-unit plan and has two storeys and an attic, with a two-window front. A doorway has been blocked on the left-hand side. The windows are 19th-century three-light casements with glazing bars, set beneath painted wood lintels. Two mid-20th century roof dormers each have a two-light casement with glazing bars. Return sides feature plank doors.

Inside, the room to the left contains a stone open fireplace with a roughly carved bressumer and rough ceiling beams. The room to the right has a large open fireplace with a chamfered stone surround. An old bressumer, brought in from elsewhere, sits below a fragment of the original. A deep splayed interior, lined with stone and old bricks, incorporates a bread oven. A broad-chamfered ceiling beam features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.

Local climate

Field Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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