Gadara Cottage and Attached Garden Wall and Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. House. 2 related planning applications.
Gadara Cottage and Attached Garden Wall and Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- old-courtyard-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gadara Cottage and Attached Garden Wall and Outbuilding, 53, Cobourg Road, BS6 5HU
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 745
- Coordinates
- 51.4684, -2.58185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gadara Cottage is a house built around 1820, located on Cobourg Road in Montpelier, Bristol. The building features a stucco exterior with limestone ashlar dressings, brick end stacks, and a pantile valley roof. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with a two-window range. Architectural details include pilasters, a cornice, a parapet, and a coped gable. The central door is framed by a late 19th-century porch, and the windows are 6/6-pane sashes with margin bars.
Inside, there is a central hall and a rear central dogleg stair with stick balusters. The property also includes subsidiary features such as a brick outbuilding to the northeast, which has a segmental-arched doorway beneath an oculus and a sloping roof. Additionally, there is a garden wall to the northwest that features a pointed-arched doorway.
Local climate
Gadara Cottage and Attached Garden Wall and Outbuilding receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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