The Hobbits is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Hobbits
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-groin-smoke
- 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
- The Hobbits, Westcote, OX7 6SD
- OS grid reference
- SP 225 202
- Coordinates
- 51.88065, -1.67399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hobbits is a house, likely originally two cottages, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone and features an artificial stone slate roof with an ashlar stack and a 20th-century stone stack. The main structure is rectangular and extends by one bay to the right, with a cottage attached at an angle to the left.
The main body has two storeys and a three-windowed facade. The ground floor includes two 2-light stone-mullioned casements, while the upper floor has two similar windows and a 2-light metal casement, all with leaded panes. There is a 20th-century part-glazed door at the center, set within a 20th-century gabled open-sided porch, and another 20th-century part-glazed door to the right-hand bay.
The attached cottage on the left is 1.5 storeys high and has two 20th-century two-light casements on the ground floor and two gabled half dormers on the first floor, all featuring leaded panes. It also has similar window designs and a 20th-century porch with a hipped roof at the rear. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
The Hobbits 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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