The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1986. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-sill-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Steel Heath, Prees
- OS grid reference
- SJ 540 364
- Coordinates
- 52.92375, -2.68528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a squatter's cottage from the 18th century or later. It is timber-framed with painted brick infilling and has a corrugated iron roof, which may be covering thatch, along with a brick stack at the left end of the ridge. The building is a single storey with an attic only at the right end. There is one eyebrow dormer on the right and two casement windows on the ground floor. The framing features long horizontal panels, with the rear infilling left unpainted.
Inside, there is a rafter roof made of thin scantling with queen struts supporting the principal rafters and staggered purlins. A fire-hood is present at the eastern end of the cottage, which is timber-framed and plastered. The existence of the fire-hood is very rare for this period, and it is the reason for the cottage's listing.
Local climate
The 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 95% 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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