Bledington Grounds House with Garden Walls and the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Detached house and cottage. 6 related planning applications.

Bledington Grounds House with Garden Walls and the Cottage

WRENN ID
heavy-bonework-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1987
Type
Detached house and cottage
Address
Bledington Grounds House with Garden Walls and the Cottage, OX7 6XL
OS grid reference
SP 235 241
Coordinates
51.9153, -1.65859
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bledington Grounds House with garden walls and The Cottage is a former farmhouse, now a detached house and cottage, dated 1771 on the keystone of the arch to the former coach house. It was built by Ambrose Reddall. The house is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone with a limestone slate roof. The red brick outbuilding on the left has a concrete tile roof and limestone infill in the arches of what were formerly open frontages, now converted into a cottage.

The house has a single pile rectangular plan with the cottage attached to the left gable end. The yard front features two storeys, a cellar, and an attic lit by five 2-light roof dormers. The first floor is illuminated by five 2-light casements with leaded panes and wedge lintels with keystones, along with a similar window on the lower left. There is a blocked doorway that formerly opened into the kitchen, featuring a wedge lintel and keystone on the right. The original 6-panel door on the right has an ornate 19th-century door knocker and thumb latch, with a 4-pane light above it, also with a wedge lintel and keystone. To the right, there are two blocked windows and two 6-pane sash windows with plain architraves and keystones. There are double plank doors within a segmental-headed opening with a plain architrave and keystone leading to the former coach house at the far right. The house has flat gable-end coping, a left gable-end stack, and an axial stack.

The Cottage, which is set back from the face of the house, is one storey with an attic lit by a 2-light 20th-century dormer from the eaves. It features 20th-century casements set within limestone infill of formerly open archways, flat gable-end coping, and a ball finial at the left gable end, along with an axial stack. There is a limestone and brick wall surrounding the garden and orchard to the south of the house.

Local climate

Bledington Grounds House with Garden Walls and the Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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