Hotel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1959. Cottage.

Hotel Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-grate-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1959
Type
Cottage
Address
Hotel Cottage, Downton
OS grid reference
SO 428 731
Coordinates
52.3531, -2.84094
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hotel Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been converted into one dwelling. Originally built in the 17th century, the building was altered in the mid-19th century and restored in the late 20th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick and rendered infill set on a rubble base, along with a rendered rubble wall at the south end. The roof is machine-tiled with a brick ridge stack.

The structure has three framed bays aligned north to south, with a large rubble chimney located between the southern and central bays, creating a lobby-entry plan. It is a single storey with an attic that includes dormers. The framing consists of three panels from the sill to the wall plate, with a collar and tie-beam truss supported by struts and a V-strut above the collar at the north gable end.

On the east front elevation, all windows are 20th-century casements. The ground floor features three 2-light windows and one 3-light window, while the attic has two gabled dormers with 3-light windows. There is a 19th-century porch with a lean-to roof supported by chamfered arch-braced timber posts, a rendered base, and a 20th-century door flanked by large multi-paned rectangular lights. Attic lights are present in the gable ends. Additionally, there are single-bay gabled rubble additions at the rear of each bay. The interior includes some medieval carved stones built into the main chimney, one of which features a heraldic passant lion.

Local climate

Hotel Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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