Holly Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Holly Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-beam-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holly Tree Cottage, Elton, SY8 2HQ
- OS grid reference
- SO 456 708
- Coordinates
- 52.33312, -2.79923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Tree Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the mid-19th century and mid-20th century. It is timber-framed with rendered infill sitting on a rubble base, topped with plain tiled roofs. The cottage consists of two framed bays oriented roughly east to west, featuring a large external chimney with a rebuilt detached brick stack at the west end. This chimney is enclosed by a lean-to timber-framed service bay, which also includes the main entrance, creating a baffle-entry plan. The building is a single storey with an attic that has a rear dormer.
The main part of the cottage has three rows of square panels from the sill to the wall-plate, and a collar and tie-beam roof truss is partly exposed at the west end. On the north front elevation, the main section has a ground floor 2-light window. To the east, there is a lean-to addition with a catslide roof, which features a 2-light 20th-century casement window on its north side and a ledged and battened door on its west side. The service bay contains a single-light 20th-century casement window and the main entrance, which has a ledged and battened door topped with a transom light that includes a central glazing bar. The rear south elevation has a 20th-century gabled dormer with a 2-light casement, as well as another lean-to addition with a catslide roof adjoining the east bay.
Local climate
Holly Tree Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% 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 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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