Guinea Pig Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1959. House. 4 related planning applications.

Guinea Pig Cottage

WRENN ID
silent-crypt-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wychavon
Constituency
Redditch MP: Chris Bloore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1959
Type
House
Address
Guinea Pig Cottage, Church Lane, Norton and Lenchwick, WR11 4TL
OS grid reference
SP 042 477
Coordinates
52.12839, -1.93917
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Guinea Pig Cottage is a house dating back to the 17th century, with a later 19th-century extension. The original section is timber-framed with rendered and painted brick infill, while the extension has plank walls. The roof is thatched, with a machine tile roof on the extension. A gable-end brick stack is present. The house has one storey and an attic, with a 2-light casement window set into the thatch. On the ground floor is a 2-light casement. Two entrances feature 20th-century ledged and boarded doors. The timber framing consists of two square panels in height, incorporating straight angle braces.

Local climate

Guinea Pig Cottage 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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  • Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
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  • 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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