Pool Head Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Pool Head Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fading-grate-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pool Head Cottage, Westhide, HR1 3RQ
- OS grid reference
- SO 587 442
- Coordinates
- 52.09527, -2.60377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pool Head Cottage is a 17th or early 18th century cottage. It is timber-framed with a thatched roof, notable for its prominent, tapering chimney stack to the gable ends. The cottage is one storey and has an attic, featuring two 20th-century casement windows. A brick projecting lobby serves as the entrance, located to the right of the centre. The principal stack includes a bread oven on the left side, and a lean-to outshut to the right, which incorporates the stairs.
Local climate
Pool Head Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- 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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