Beech Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1953. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Beech Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fading-pavement-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1953
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Beech Cottage, Church Road, Kington, HR5 3AG
- OS grid reference
- SO 291 566
- Coordinates
- 52.20395, -3.03788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottage is a cottage from the 18th century located on Church Road in Kington. It is constructed of colour-washed stone rubble and features a Welsh slate roof, with rubble end stacks that have brick caps. The building is two storeys high and has a single-window range, which includes two blocked openings. The main window is a round-headed two-light casement with a Gothick-glazed head, situated under a dressed stone semi-circular arch. To the left, there is a curved return under a corbelled first floor. There is a 19th-century rubble wing to the right, which includes a 20th-century casement and a window on the returned side.
Local climate
Beech 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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