New Cottage Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1959. House. 1 related planning application.
New Cottage Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-bailey-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- New Cottage Old Cottage, Rushwick, WR2 5SU
- OS grid reference
- SO 825 531
- Coordinates
- 52.17666, -2.25628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two houses, dating from the early 18th century. The buildings are timber-framed with a tile roof, and their frame is visible in three rows of square panels. They are one storey high, with an attic. There are five casement windows on the ground floor and four dormers in the roof. Chimneys are located to the right of the second dormer and on the right-hand gable. Part of the roof truss is exposed in the left-hand gable, featuring V-struts above the collar. Doorways are situated in 20th-century extensions to the left and right. The building was originally listed in 1959 as “Cottage 65 yards NE of Upper Wick Farmhouse”.
Local climate
New Cottage Old Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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