Walnut Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. A C20 House. 3 related planning applications.

Walnut Tree House

WRENN ID
vacant-steeple-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
House
Address
Walnut Tree House, Westcote, OX7 6SD
OS grid reference
SP 226 203
Coordinates
51.88104, -1.67304
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree House is a detached house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with a 20th-century extension. It is constructed of limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins and features a red tile roof with ashlar stacks. The building has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. The main structure is rectangular, with a 20th-century extension added to the right gable end when viewed from the garden front. There is also a 20th-century porch extension at the rear, which is not of special interest.

The garden front is symmetrical with two windows. It includes two original mid-17th-century hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods, alongside two 20th-century stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods. The central entrance features a part-glazed door with a segmental surround. The 20th-century Cotswold-style extension projects forward to the right.

At the rear, the fenestration from left to right consists of 20th-century single and two-light stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods on the ground floor, and a single-light cellar window in the lower right. The first floor features a two-light stone-mullioned casement with 4-centred arched heads to each light, a hollow-moulded mullion, carved spandrels, and a stopped hood. There is also a single 17th-century light with a stopped hood to the right, two-light 20th-century stone-mullioned casements, and a 17th-century two-light stone-mullioned hollow-chamfered mullion with a stopped hood far right. The house has stepped coped gables and a roll-cross saddle to the right gable end, along with a gable-end and axial stack, which has been reduced in height. The interior is not accessible but is reputed to contain a good fireplace.

Local climate

Walnut Tree House 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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