Blossom Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. A C17 House.

Blossom Cottage

WRENN ID
iron-corridor-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1974
Type
House
Address
Blossom Cottage, Wistanstow
OS grid reference
SO 419 849
Coordinates
52.45923, -2.85551
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blossom Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Cheney Longville. It features a timber-frame and plaster construction over rubble sandstone, topped with a plain tile roof and a brick ridge stack. The building is single-storey with an attic and has two 19th-century gabled dormers. The front entrance consists of a battened plank door with a light, flanked by a 19th-century two-light casement window and a 20th-century light. On the right side, there is a 20th-century casement window in the gable. The rear includes a 19th-century light under a simple hood, a 20th-century casement, and double plank doors. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Blossom Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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