Little Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. House.
Little Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-clay-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Cottage, Hopton Wafers
- OS grid reference
- SO 637 765
- Coordinates
- 52.38541, -2.53359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century, with a 20th-century extension. It is constructed of red brick, featuring partly coursed rubble on the east side, and has a plain-tile roof. There is a brick integral eaves chimney on the side and a gable front with a gabled extension bay at the rear.
The exterior is single-storey with an attic. The gable front has one 20th-century casement window on each floor, and there is a dentil course storey band. The sides and rear also have 20th-century casements, and there is a dormer on the west side. A plain boarded door is located on the east side.
The interior has not been inspected. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Little Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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