The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-keep-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Wapley Hill, Dodington
- OS grid reference
- ST 712 796
- Coordinates
- 51.51511, -2.4164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from limestone and sandstone rubble, topped with a double Roman tiled roof that features raised coped verges. The house has a gable stack on the southeast side, which includes recessed panels and a cornice, as well as a brick ridge and gable stack. Originally designed with a through passage plan, the front is symmetrical and has two storeys with three windows. All windows are three-light casements with three panes each, featuring relieving arches, except for the central first-floor window, which is a two-light casement. The central door, which is from the 20th century, is located in a gabled porch.
On the right side of the building, there is a 20th-century window on the ground floor and a single-storey addition. The left side features a three-light casement with a relieving arch on the ground floor and a 20th-century attic window with a relieving arch, along with stepped stonework under the verges. At the rear, the ground floor has two three-light casements and a central 20th-century window that replaces a door, all with relieving arches. The first floor has two three-light casements and a central three-pane fixed light, all with relieving arches, and there is a single-storey addition to the left. Inside, there are chamfered beams, a stud partition to the left of the passage, and a 20th-century stair at the rear, with the original stair located in the front left room.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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