Priory Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

Priory Garden Cottage

WRENN ID
drifting-niche-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wychavon
Constituency
West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
House
Address
Priory Garden Cottage, Upper Kemerton, GL20 7JN
OS grid reference
SO 949 378
Coordinates
52.03861, -2.07465
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Priory Garden Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is timber-framed, featuring painted brick and rendered infill on a limestone rubble base, and part coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. The cottage has a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the west end, with a brick stack located at the east end of the ridge.

The structure consists of two framed bays aligned east to west, with an external chimney at the west end and a tall detached brick stack. It is a single storey with an attic that includes dormers. The framing primarily consists of three panels from the sill to the wall-plate, with a truncated collar and tie-beam truss featuring three struts at the west end.

On the south front elevation, there is a three-light chamfered stone mullioned window with a hoodmould that has returns, along with 19th-century casements in the eastern bay. The west bay contains a two-light 19th-century casement. Above each bay, there are eyebrow dormers with two-light casements. The main entrance, located in the east bay, features a chamfered Tudor-arched head, a hoodmould with returns, and a ledged and battened door.

In the gable end, there are attic lights, including two chamfered rectangular lights at the east end that have been blocked. At the rear of the east bay, there is a mullioned window that matches the details of the front elevation. A lean-to addition is attached to the west end, which has a ledged and battened door at its south end. The interior of the cottage is said to have been little altered.

Local climate

Priory Garden Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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