Lovely Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Lovely Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-storey-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lovely Cottage, Boatley, Grimley, WR6 6YW
- OS grid reference
- SO 804 617
- Coordinates
- 52.254, -2.28785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lovely Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1600, with alterations from the 19th century and additions from the 20th century. It has a timber-framed structure with painted brick infill and refacing, a thatched roof, and external gable end brick chimneys, one of which includes a bread oven and paired diagonal shafts. The cottage features two framed bays and is a single storey with an attic that has dormers. The square panels consist of three from the sill to the wall-plate, and the left gable end exposes a queen strut truss.
The front elevation includes three ground floor casements with cambered heads, two eyebrow dormers cut into the thatch with casements, and a thatched porch supported by timber uprights on the left bay, which has a planked door. Inside, there is an intermediate queen strut truss and single trenched purlins, while the main beams are stop-chamfered. The cottage has 19th-century single storey extensions that enclose the stacks at both gable ends, as well as a large 20th-century rear extension.
Local climate
Lovely Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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