Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1959. House.
Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-stone-holly
- 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
- House
- Address
- Rock Cottage, Richards Castle (Hereford)
- OS grid reference
- SO 488 700
- Coordinates
- 52.32607, -2.75251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, which was restored in the late 19th and late 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill set on a coursed rubble plinth and has a machine tile roof. The building consists of two framed bays aligned north to south, with an external gable-end stack on the south side. The front facing the street has two storeys, with a jettied first floor supported by a tie-beam. Each floor has a 2-light casement window, which has been inserted where projecting windows once were; the sills of these original windows remain on scroll brackets. The chamfered jetty bressummer is also supported by scroll brackets. The gable end features 19th-century barge-boards. The entrance is located in the west wall. The framing consists of four square panels high, with the north gable-end truss supported by three struts to the collar, V-struts in the apex, and trenched purlins.
Local climate
Rock 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
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