Forty Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Cottage.
Forty Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-bailey-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forty Cottage, Madley
- OS grid reference
- SO 414 386
- Coordinates
- 52.04305, -2.85478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forty Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 17th century and has undergone later alterations. It features a timber frame with brick infill, weatherboards, and a roof made of Welsh slate. The cottage has an external sandstone end stack with a brick shaft. It consists of two structural bays that are aligned roughly east to west and is two storeys high.
The north elevation includes four windows, which consist of 2- and 4-pane 20th-century casements and sashes in the weatherboarded upper storey. The ground floor has two contemporary 2-light casements set in the exposed timber framing. The projecting upper storey is supported by a bressummer, with straight-cut chamfer-stops resting on three curved braces that rise forward from the main wall-posts. At the rear, there is a glazed door from the late 20th century. Inside, the cottage features heavy chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Forty Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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