Wharton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1976. A C17 House.
Wharton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-joist-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wharton Cottage, Leominster
- OS grid reference
- SO 508 555
- Coordinates
- 52.19582, -2.72008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wharton Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, constructed of rubble with a timber-frame and plaster finish. It features a composite tile roof and has a brick and roughcast ridge stack on a stone base, along with a brick stack at the rear. The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window range, with 2-light casements that include lattice leaded lights. The entrance is located to the right and features a 20th-century porch with an earlier plank door and side-lights, which contains a 20th-century glazed door in its original frame. There are also two mullion windows with metal casements and lattice-leaded lights.
On the left side, the cottage has a timber-frame and plaster finish with a lattice-braced gable above the rubble, and 20th-century casements. There is an entrance in a rubble lean-to at the rear, which has a plank door in an oak frame, sheltered by a simple wood hood. The right side of the cottage also features timber-frame and plaster with a lattice-braced gable over roughcast, a 20th-century leaded casement, an 18th-century casement above a 20th-century cross-window, and a 20th-century casement leading to the lean-to.
Inside, the cottage has a 17th-century deep chamfered ceiling-frame and a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and a turned newel.
Local climate
Wharton Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% 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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