Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. Cottage.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-spire-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage, Oswestry Rural
- OS grid reference
- SJ 274 263
- Coordinates
- 52.82975, -3.07851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has seen later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and painted uncoursed rubble on the gable ends, topped with a graded slate roof. The building has a two-cell plan and is one storey high with an attic. The framing consists of irregular square and rectangular panels, with three panels extending from the cill to the wall-plate. To the left of a roughly central four-panel door, there is a mid-19th century fixed-light window, and to the right, a gabled eaves dormer. An integral end stack with a red brick shaft is located to the left. There is a 20th-century flat-roofed extension to the right, which is not of special architectural interest. The cottage was formerly known as No. 1, Railway Cottage.
Local climate
Old Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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