Ford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Ford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-sandstone-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ford Cottage, Bunthorn Lane, Astley and Dunley, DY13 0TR
- OS grid reference
- SO 789 698
- Coordinates
- 52.3267, -2.31033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Cottage is a small house that was formerly two houses, dating from the 17th century and later. It is constructed with a timber frame, featuring some painted brick and lath and plaster infill, and has a 20th-century asbestos roof along with a tiled outshut at the rear. The building consists of two and three bays, with one central stack and a rebuilt external stack on the left gable. There are two entrances that are roughly central to each house. The cottage is a single storey with an attic, which includes two dormers and four windows on the ground floor. To the left of the second entrance, there are two small curved brick buttresses. The framing consists of two and three panels from the sill to the wall-plate, with a large brace in the central bay from the sill to the central post, and V-struts in the right end gable. Inside, the right-hand house retains some unaltered late Victorian features, including a range.
Local climate
Ford 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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