Little Southend Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Little Southend Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-banister-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Southend Cottage, Mathon, WR13 5PB
- OS grid reference
- SO 739 447
- Coordinates
- 52.10072, -2.38195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Southend Cottage is likely a 17th or early 18th century cottage, with an extension added in the 19th century. The construction is timber-framed, with painted brick panels set within a rubble stone base, and a hipped tiled roof. A large external chimney stack made of local rubble stone rises centrally, with a detached brick shaft extending to the road front.
The garden front has one storey and an attic, arranged in three bays. The fenestration is regular, with 19th-century metal casement windows to the centre and right bays, and a smaller 4-pane wooden casement to the left bay. Three 20th-century gabled dormers are positioned over each bay. A 20th-century panelled door is located in the left bay. A lower, one-bay extension to the left, possibly dating to the early 19th century, is also present.
The decorative panelling on the right-hand two bays is regular, extending to the wall-plate, and features a deliberate decorative frieze effect: the panels are slightly lower in height between the windows and eaves, and beneath the centre and right windows. The tiling on the left-hand bay appears to be a later addition, indicated by its smaller timber scantling, as is the lower extension to the left, which also features painted brickwork designed to resemble timber framing. There are plank weatherboards protecting the ground-floor windows. A cellar is located under the right-hand bay.
Local climate
Little Southend Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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