Black and White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. House.
Black and White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-span-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Tamworth MP: Sarah Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Black and White Cottage, Church Road, Elford
- OS grid reference
- SK 188 105
- Coordinates
- 52.69189, -1.72306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black and White Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with later additions. It features a timber frame with brick infill and a plain tile roof, along with brick integral end stacks. Originally, it was a single-cell house oriented north-east to south-west and facing north-west. A 20th-century extension to the north-east has replaced a timber-framed lean-to.
The 17th-century section, located to the right, has two storeys and an attic, with the upper floors lit from the gable end. It displays three square panels at the eaves and slightly curved braces. The ground floor has a casement window with latticed panes on the left and a central Victorian timber-framed porch with an iron gate.
The 20th-century extension to the left has two storeys and two windows, featuring a ground floor bay window on the left under a canopy, and it extends to the right to shelter a door. This extension incorporates reused timber, likely from the former lean-to. The south-west gable reveals an exposed roof truss with three vertical struts between the collar and tie beam. An old photograph showing the former lean-to is in the possession of the occupier as of September 1985.
Local climate
Black and White Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings