Harp Bank Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1991. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Harp Bank Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-bonework-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1991
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Harp Bank Cottage, Clee Hill Road, Burford, WR15 8HJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 592 690
- Coordinates
- 52.31788, -2.59881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harp Bank Cottage is a canal house dating from approximately 1795, originally built for the Leominster-Stourport Canal, and later altered around 1858 for the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish garden-wall bond, with a plain-tiled roof featuring gabled ends. It has a brick lateral stack at the rear with two diagonally-set shafts, and a brick stack on the side of the single-storey outshut, featuring a tall shaft.
The original plan likely consisted of a single room, with the entrance on the left side and heating from a rear lateral stack. A heated single-storey outshut was added to the northwest end in the mid-19th century.
The exterior is two storeys high and features two windows with metal casements (leaded panes missing) in segmental-headed openings. A smaller casement, without a transom, is located in the gable. A segmental arch frames the doorway on the left, leading to a plank door. The outshut on the right-hand end has a tall brick stack and similar windows in its south-east gable end. A partially projecting lateral stack is at the rear, featuring a small square window to the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Harp Bank Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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