High Town Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

High Town Cottage

WRENN ID
gilded-vestry-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
High Town Cottage, Peterstow, HR9 6LD
OS grid reference
SO 562 244
Coordinates
51.91692, -2.63772
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Town Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 17th century to the early 18th century, with later alterations and additions. It features a sandstone rubble plinth, a timber frame with brick infill that is mostly pebbledashed, an asbestos slate roof, and an external side stack with a brick shaft. The building has two bays aligned roughly north to south and stands two storeys tall.

On the west elevation, there is one window, a two-light casement on the left. The ground floor has a small four-paned window on the left side and a four-light steel casement on the right. To the left of centre, there is a four-panelled early 20th-century door beneath a flat canopy. The south gable displays exposed timber framing with three square panels high from the high cill to the wall-plate, and V-struts above the collar are supported by two posts. To the left, there is a brick lean-to extension. Inside, the ground floor features heavy chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

High Town Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
  • 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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