Close Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Close Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-cupola-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Close Cottage, Holdfast Lane, Upton-Upon-Severn, WR8 0QZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 847 386
- Coordinates
- 52.0464, -2.22372
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Close Cottage is an earlier 17th century timber-framed cottage located on Holdfast Lane in Upton-Upon-Severn. It is a one-and-a-half-storey building with a painted brick front and plain tile roofs, featuring large end wall stacks. The cottage has two gables and a two-window range. It has segment-headed openings containing leaded light casements.
Local climate
Close 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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