1, Lower Upton Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
1, Lower Upton Cottages
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-string-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1, Lower Upton Cottages, Burford
- OS grid reference
- SP 242 125
- Coordinates
- 51.81068, -1.64893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 1 Lower Upton Cottages is a cottage dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is built of rubble with a Cotswold stone roof and has one storey and an attic. The east front features an off-centre right Cotswold gable, with mullion windows that have hollow chamfer mouldings and labels. There is a 2-light window in the gable and a 3-light window below it, along with a further plain chamfered 3-light mullion window to the right. The structure extends to the left with a hipped dormer and has an ashlar chimney to the left. At the rear, there are two doors, with the right-hand one numbered 1, and later windows, except for one 3-light mullion window to the right.
Local climate
1, Lower Upton Cottages receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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