Bests Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1985. House.
Bests Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-tallow-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bests Farm Cottage, Ripple
- OS grid reference
- SO 876 396
- Coordinates
- 52.05466, -2.18092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bests Farm Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed house designed in an L-plan. It has one and a half storeys and features a modern tiled roof. There are external stacks located at the south end of the front range and the east end of the rear range. The front of the cottage has two windows with a central modern porch. The walls of the rear wing are partly covered in painted brick.
Local climate
Bests Farm 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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