Tar Wood House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Tar Wood House
- WRENN ID
- cold-cobble-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tar Wood House, South Leigh and High Cogges, OX29 6XQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 397 081
- Coordinates
- 51.77059, -1.42487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tar Wood House is a house with a rear range dating to 1724, a front range from the late 18th or early 19th century, and a right wing added around 1900. The house was remodelled around 1900. The construction is of squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, and it has a gabled stone slate roof. A brick section is present at the left end, and there are internal brick stacks.
The main front of the house has a symmetrical three-window design, with two storeys and an attic. The front range features relieving arches and timber lintels over a half-glazed door and tripartite sash windows added around 1900. Stone lintels are above the early 19th-century eight-pane first-floor sashes, and there are three gabled roof dormers. The right wing, built around 1900 using matching materials, has sashes in ovolo-moulded and mullioned stone frames. A brick stack stands on an open pediment on the right side wall.
The earlier rear range, constructed using similar materials, has segmental brick arches. A c.1900 outshut incorporates a porch and Art Nouveau plasterwork. Internally, the house includes stairs, dados, and fireplaces dating to around 1900. The rear range has an early 18th-century collar-truss roof.
Local climate
Tar Wood House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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