The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-rafter-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, South Parade, Ledbury
- OS grid reference
- SO 710 373
- Coordinates
- 52.03364, -2.4234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an early 19th-century house that has a stuccoed exterior. It features a low-pitched, slated hipped roof with wide eaves. The building has two storeys, with three casement windows on the first floor that include horizontal glazing bars. The ground floor has a verandah with a glass roof supported by iron trellised supports, which are connected by ornamental arches. There are two French windows on the ground floor, also with horizontal glazing bars and louvred shutters, along with a central glazed and panelled door. The Cottage is part of a group that includes St Michael's, Ankerdine House, Rutland Lodge, and South Parade House with gate piers to the northwest.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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