Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1987. Cottage.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
half-gargoyle-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Church Cottage, Adforton
OS grid reference
SO 401 710
Coordinates
52.33392, -2.88
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a cottage that likely dates back to the 17th century. It features a sandstone rubble plinth and a timber-frame structure with lath-and-plaster infill, topped with an asbestos slate roof. The cottage has an external sandstone end stack with a brick shaft. It consists of two structural bays aligned from west-south-west to east-north-east and is one storey high with an attic.

On the north elevation, there is one window, which is a 2-light mid-20th century steel casement. The ground floor has two square windows, and there is a 17th-century doorway on the right-hand side with a slightly cambered head and a ledged door. The west gable features an external bread oven next to the stack. There is an entry through a glazed porch on the south side.

Inside, the cottage has a flat oak four-centred lintel above the fireplace, which also includes ovolo moulded stone jambs. The ceiling beams are stop-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops.

Local climate

Church Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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