The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1986. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-railing-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Ledicot Lane, Shobdon
- OS grid reference
- SO 407 620
- Coordinates
- 52.25382, -2.86981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with some restoration carried out in the late 20th century. It features a timber frame with rendered infill on a coursed rubble ground floor and has a hipped tile roof. The building consists of two framed bays and includes a lateral stack on the north wall. The north front, which faces the street, has two storeys and a small casement window on the left side. The ground floor has a rubble lean-to. The entrance is located in the west gable end and is adorned with a gabled tiled canopy, a wooden architrave, and a ledged and boarded door. The framing on the first floor consists of one square panel high.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
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