Ships Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1973. A C18 House.
Ships Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-porch-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hounslow
- Constituency
- Hammersmith and Chiswick MP: Andy Slaughter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ships Cottage, Thames Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 194 777
- Coordinates
- 51.4865, -0.28106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ship's Cottage is an 18th-century building located on Thayes Road. It is constructed of painted brick and stands two storeys high with one window. The ground floor features a casement window, while the first floor has a double-hung sash window. The roof is hipped and covered with red tiles.
Local climate
Ships Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings