Fold Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Farmhouse.
Fold Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-casement-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fold Cottage, Chapel Lawn Road, Bucknell
- OS grid reference
- SO 353 740
- Coordinates
- 52.36108, -2.95085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fold Cottage is an early 19th-century farmhouse with minor later alterations. It is constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble and features a plain tile roof with an integral brick end stack on the left side. The building has two storeys and includes 19th-century casement windows on each floor, with the ground floor windows having segmental heads. The central entrance is a segmental-headed boarded door topped with a semi-circular tin hood. This cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Fold Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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