The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1977. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-rubblework-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Sandford, Severn Stoke, Worcester, WR8 9JE
- OS grid reference
- SO 853 456
- Coordinates
- 52.10901, -2.2154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage constructed with a timber frame and painted brick. It features a modern tile gable-ended roof with two modern dormers. The south end of the building has been rebuilt in brick. The cottage is one storey with an attic, and the north gable end displays an exposed truss with tumbled brickwork at the apex. The square framing is complemented by four 19th-century small casement windows arranged in pairs. There are brick extensions at each end of the cottage.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2023
- 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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