Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-vestry-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Lew, OX18 2AZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 323 063
- Coordinates
- 51.75456, -1.5327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house dating from the 17th to early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone and features a stone slate roof. The building has rubble stone chimneys on the left and center, with shafts that were rebuilt in the 20th century using white brick.
The house is two storeys high with an attic and consists of two main bays plus a central stair bay. The ground floor has 20th-century two-light wooden casements with crossed glazing bars. The right window features a moulded lintel from the 16th or 17th century, which may have been reused, adorned with zig-zag and dentil ornament. On the first floor, there are 20th-century three-light casements without glazing bars, but they retain old chamfered lintels. Centrally located on the first floor is a tall late 19th to early 20th-century three-pane sash window, likely serving as a stair window.
The roof has two gabled dormers with small-paned two-light casements, connected by a half-glazed door with a wooden lintel. The right gable end, which faces the road, also features wooden casements in their original openings with wooden lintels, along with a single-storey extension that has a board door and flanking casements. At the rear, there is a lean-to, and the building has an old double purlin roof.
Local climate
Church Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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