Cottage and attached outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. Cottage.
Cottage and attached outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- twisted-corridor-cedar
- 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
- Cottage and attached outbuilding, Old Grove Farm, Westhide, Hereford, Withington, HR1 3RL
- OS grid reference
- SO 571 431
- Coordinates
- 52.0853, -2.6265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This cottage and attached outbuilding, located at Old Grove Farm, is a Grade II listed structure. It dates from the 17th century and features a timber-framed design with plaster infill and a slate roof. The building is one storey with an attic, showcasing a large rubble end chimney with a brick stack on the left side. The front has two raking top dormers that cut through the wall-plate, and there are two irregularly spaced two-light casement windows on the ground floor. A panelled door is situated in the left bay.
The framing consists of three panels high with short struts at the upper corners, and there is a lean-to enclosing the chimney on the left side. The outbuilding is weatherboarded and has three bays, with a lower corrugated iron roof on the right side. It has two levels and plain doors to the left, along with a lean-to on the right. The trusses of the outbuilding feature raking struts above the collars, supported by two queen posts.
This building is part of a group of margin reclamation hovels in a former marsh area.
Local climate
Cottage and attached outbuilding 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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