Joyces and Hope Pole Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1952. A C17 House.

Joyces and Hope Pole Cottage

WRENN ID
final-landing-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 1952
Type
House
Address
Joyces and Hope Pole Cottage, Stowe Lane, Colwall
OS grid reference
SO 749 418
Coordinates
52.07433, -2.36645
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Joyces and Hope Pole Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century to the mid-18th century. It features a timber-framed rear range with brick infill panels and a plain tiled roof that is half-hipped to the left. There is a very large external stone chimney, typical of the local style, with an oven located at the left center of the rear wall. A single-storey timber-framed extension, possibly from the 18th century, is gabled and situated in the second bay from the left. Additionally, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension at the rear left.

The house is one storey and attic high, with five bays, and has a masked two-bay cross-wing at the rear right. There are two dormers to the right of the front, and the windows include 19th and 20th-century casements that are irregularly placed. The front entrance is through a ledged 10th-century door at the junction with the 18th-century addition, which features a brick structure, a modillion cornice, and a tiled hipped roof. A tall panelled stack with its own cornice is located at the front left corner.

The house has two storeys and an attic, with a layout of two by three bays. The ground storey has casements, while the first storey features deeper cruciform casements, some of which are temporarily blind. There is one attic dormer to the left and a 20th-century entrance at the rear right side. A former linking block, now serving as a staircase block, is located at the rear left and is designed in the same style.

Inside the 18th-century block, the upper left front room contains a late 18th to early 19th-century angled cast-iron fire basket adorned with urns and swags as decoration around the fireplace. There is also an 18th-century ledged oak door leading to the attic, supported by two pairs of upper crucks with raised collars, and one cruck in the middle of each of the four walls to support the roof hips. The prominence of the 18th-century addition is accentuated by the piano nobile effect of its windows.

Local climate

Joyces and Hope Pole Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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