The Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1965. A Cl7 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-corner-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1965
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Keepers Cottage, Hill Lane, Elmley Castle, WR10 3JA
- OS grid reference
- SO 975 409
- Coordinates
- 52.067, -2.03725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Keepers Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Hill Lane in Elmley Castle. It features a timber frame construction with plaster, whitened brick, and some stone. The cottage is topped with a thatched roof and has modern casements. The surrounding buildings in Hill Lane, along with Price's Cottage, create a charming and picturesque group on the hillside.
Local climate
The Keepers 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 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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