Beech Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1988. Cottage.
Beech Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-bailey-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Beech Cottage, Whitchurch Rural
- OS grid reference
- SJ 579 393
- Coordinates
- 52.95014, -2.62681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottage is an early 17th-century cottage located in Ash Parva, Whitchurch Rural. It features a timber frame with painted wattle and daub and brick infill, topped with a plain tile roof. The framing consists of square panels, with three extending from the sole plate to the wall plate, and it has two framed bays across two storeys. A large external brick stack is positioned at the west end.
On the south front, there is a first-floor two-light wooden casement window that is off-centre to the left, along with a ground-floor two-light wooden casement window also off-centre to the left, and a small one-light window off-centre to the right. The left-hand gable end features a boarded door to the right of the stack, along with an exposed collar and tie-beam truss supported by queen struts. There is a 19th-century lean-to addition next to the stack. Although the interior was not inspected, a chamfered ceiling beam was noted in the left-hand ground-floor room. The right-hand end wall of the cottage only partly survives.
Local climate
Beech Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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