The Black and White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Cottage.

The Black and White Cottage

WRENN ID
brooding-buttress-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stafford
Constituency
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1972
Type
Cottage
Address
The Black and White Cottage, Village Green, Brocton
OS grid reference
SJ 968 194
Coordinates
52.77241, -2.04866
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Black and White Cottage is a late 16th century or early 17th century vernacular building. It features a timber frame with colour washed brick and part rubble stone in the gable wall. The cottage is a single storey with an attic, and it has two casement windows with leaded lights and two dormers. The roof is tiled, and there are brick stacks present.

Local climate

The Black and White Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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