Sycamors is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. Cottage.

Sycamors

WRENN ID
over-quartz-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Sycamors, Oswestry Rural
OS grid reference
SJ 284 259
Coordinates
52.82663, -3.06305
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sycamors is a squatter's cottage dating from the late 18th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of uncoursed limestone and sandstone rubble, topped with a slate roof featuring coped verges on stone kneelers. It has a single-cell plan and includes a 19th-century stone lean-to against the left gable end. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. To the left of a roughly central open gabled porch, which has square yellow brick pillars, there is a late 19th-century casement window. The porch features a boarded-over panelled door with a gabled eaves dormer above it. To the right gable end, there is a 4-panel door and late 19th-century windows. An integral end stack to the left has a yellow brick base and twin shafts of star section, with a datestone that reads "SL (Stanley Leighton)/1875".

Local climate

Sycamors 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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