Townsend Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1976. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Townsend Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-hearth-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Townsend Cottage, 2, Headbrook, Kington, HR5 3DZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 299 563
- Coordinates
- 52.20089, -3.02676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Headbrook in Kington. The building is constructed with roughcast rendering over a timber-frame and brick structure, and has a roof of graduated stone tiles, with a rubble ridge stack. It is a single-storey building with an attic and a cellar. The central right-hand side features a 20th-century plank door. To the right of the door is one 20th-century three-light casement window, and to the left, two. A small gable above has a 20th-century two-light casement window. On the returned right side, the building is timber-framed with jowled posts and brick infill, with a 20th-century casement window within a gable. The rear of the cottage features stone rubble, a buttress stack with a brick chimney, and a timber-frame and brick construction.
Local climate
Townsend Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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