Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Keeper's Cottage

WRENN ID
tattered-portal-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Keeper's Cottage, Bomere Heath and District, SY4 3HS
OS grid reference
SJ 471 159
Coordinates
52.73879, -2.78486
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottage is a cottage that is now partly used for agricultural purposes. It dates from the late 17th century and has late 19th-century additions. The building features a timber frame set on a brick plinth, with plastered and painted brick infill, and has a plain tile roof. The framing consists of small square panels, three from the sole plate to the wall plate, with long straight tension braces, and it is composed of two framed bays. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a large external brick end stack on the east side. There are two gabled dormers on the south side, each with two-light wooden casements. The front also features a two-window arrangement with two-light wooden casements and a central boarded door. Inside, the gable ends have collar and tie-beam trusses, with queen struts and V-struts. A late 19th-century two-storey brick addition is located at the rear. The interior of the 17th-century part includes a timber-framed cross wall and chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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