Blue Hole Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1967. A C17 Cottage.

Blue Hole Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-keep-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stratford-on-Avon
Constituency
Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 April 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
Blue Hole Cottage, Stratford Road, Wootton Wawen
OS grid reference
SP 153 628
Coordinates
52.26358, -1.77582
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blue Hole Cottage is a mid-17th century building that originally consisted of three cottages but has been converted into a single house. There is a 19th-century range to the right and restorations were made around 1980-1990, which included an outshut to the left and an extension to the rear. The cottage features a blue lias stone plinth topped with timber-framing and plaster infill, with some remaining wattle and daub. The right part has painted brick nogging, while the left is made of reddish-brown brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles.

The exterior is two storeys high with three first-floor windows. The timber-framing is small and square, supported by angle braces. There are steps leading to a pair of off-centre entrances on the left and another entrance to the right, all with plank doors. The windows throughout are 20th-century casements, and the roof is gabled with internal, ridge, and left end stacks.

Inside, there are two inglenook fireplaces with bressumer beams, one of which is located in the original smoke stack. The interior features two main chamfered beams with chamfered stops resting on massive, chamfered jowled studs, totaling six studs. The timber-framing is exposed, including on the partition walls, and there are plank doors. The upper floor has smoke-blackened timbers, and the purlins and arched braces are also exposed, with some having been renewed.

Local climate

Blue Hole Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

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