Sycamore Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1976. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Sycamore Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-mullion-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sycamore Cottage, 6a, Common Close, Kington, HR5 3BA
- OS grid reference
- SO 295 568
- Coordinates
- 52.20502, -3.03281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sycamore Cottage is one of a row of early 19th-century cottages located on the north side of Common Close in Kington. The cottages are constructed of sandstone rubble with a Welsh slate roof and brick ridge stacks. A rubble buttress stack with a brick chimney is situated to the left. The cottages have two storeys and a seven-window front. The windows are primarily 2/2 sash windows with broad beaded casings, with a 3/4 sash window to the left. Number 4 features a half-glazed 4-panel door and a 2/2 sash window under an ashlar lintel. Number 5 has a 4-panel door with an open pediment wooden hood supported by consoles and pilasters, flanked by canted bay windows containing 1/1, 2/2, 1/1, and 2/2 sash windows. Number 6A has a half-glazed, moulded panel door and a 2/2 sash window to the right. Number 7 has a plank door and a 2-light casement window to the left.
Local climate
Sycamore Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 3 transactions since 2004
- 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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