Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
sacred-garret-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Staffordshire
Constituency
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire MP: Mike Wood (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage, Springhill Lane, Lower Penn
OS grid reference
SO 866 961
Coordinates
52.56291, -2.19774
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Springhill Lane in Lower Penn. It features a timber-framed structure with a fishscale tile roof and a central brick stack. The cottage has a two-cell plan and is one storey high with an attic. The eaves display three square panels and straight braces. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century bay windows, and the attic has flat-roofed dormers. The entrance door is positioned to the right. Inside, the roof is supported by queen-strut roof trusses.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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