Toy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Toy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-pier-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Redditch MP: Chris Bloore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Toy Cottage, Malthouse Lane, South Lenches, WR11 4UF
- OS grid reference
- SP 026 512
- Coordinates
- 52.15932, -1.96259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Toy Cottage is a late 17th to early 18th century cottage with 20th-century alterations. It is timber-framed with rendered infill and a thatched roof. The cottage is one bay wide, aligned north/south, and features an external brick stack on the south gable. A 20th-century extension has been added to the rear (east). The cottage is one storey high with a gable-lit attic. There is a central door with a gabled canopy, and no windows are visible on the front elevation. The timber framing consists of three rectangular panels, with straight tension braces.
Local climate
Toy Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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