Slate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. A Early C17 Cottage.

Slate Cottage

WRENN ID
muted-ashlar-gold
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
Slate Cottage, Grimley
OS grid reference
SO 815 603
Coordinates
52.24092, -2.27194
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Slate Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century, with 20th-century additions and alterations. It features a timber-framed structure with painted brick infill and a slate roof. There are brick external stacks with slate offsets at the left gable end and another stack at the rear left. The cottage has two framed bays, with the right bay appearing to have been extended. It is a single storey with an attic that includes rear dormers. The building has square panels, three from the sill to the wall-plate, and long straight braces in the lower corners at both the front and rear. The left gable end displays an exposed queen strut truss with V-struts in the apex.

On the front elevation, there is a ground floor casement window in the left bay, while the right bay has an outshut with four skylights and a 20th-century timber door at the angle with the main part of the cottage. Inside, there is an intermediate queen strut truss and single, trenched purlins, with the main beams being stop-chamfered. There is also a 20th-century extension at the right gable end.

Local climate

Slate 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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