33 (Stepps Cottage), Forge Cottage and Wychwood, Evesham Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1959. House. 1 related planning application.
33 (Stepps Cottage), Forge Cottage and Wychwood, Evesham Road
- WRENN ID
- swift-mantel-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Redditch MP: Chris Bloore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- 33 (Stepps Cottage), Forge Cottage and Wychwood, Evesham Road, Norton, Norton and Lenchwick, WR11 4TL
- OS grid reference
- SP 044 480
- Coordinates
- 52.13092, -1.937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stepps Cottage, Forge Cottage, and Wychwood are three houses located on Evesham Road, dating from the 17th century, with some early 19th-century and mid-20th-century alterations. The buildings feature a timber-frame construction with rendered and painted brick infill on a painted brick and coursed lias rubble plinth. Wychwood has a thatched roof, while the other two parts have machine tile roofs.
Wychwood is at the south end and consists of three bays, followed by Forge Cottage, which has two bays, and No 33, forming a cross-wing at the north end. No 33 has a central stack, while the others have gable-end stacks.
The east front of No 33 is two storeys high, featuring two 2-light casements on the first floor. The ground floor has three casements, with the leftmost one situated under a single storey catslide roof, which is lit by a gabled dormer in the attic. The entrance is located in the right-hand return wall. The framing consists of three square panels high with straight angle braces.
Forge Cottage is also two storeys tall with irregular fenestration and two casements, and its entrance is at the right-hand corner. Its framing has three square panels high, raised by an additional square panel.
Wychwood is one storey with an attic that is lit by a casement cut into the thatch. The ground floor features two 2-light casements, and the entrance has a ledged and boarded door with a plank weathering. Its framing consists of two large rectangular panels high.
Local climate
33 (Stepps Cottage), Forge Cottage and Wychwood, Evesham Road receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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 — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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