Church House is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1984. Estate cottage.

Church House

WRENN ID
cold-passage-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1984
Type
Estate cottage
Address
Church House, Tortworth
OS grid reference
ST 704 934
Coordinates
51.63863, -2.42855
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House, also known as Church Cottage, is an estate cottage built around 1850-1855 for the Earl of Ducie's estate. The building is rendered and features roughly hewn quoins, a plain tiled roof with coped raised verges and ball finials, and brick diagonal clustered stacks. Designed in a picturesque Tudor Gothic style, it stands two storeys high and has three bays. The central bay projects as a two-storey gabled porch, and the windows are two- and three-light cross windows with chamfered mullions and surrounds. The entrance has a moulded doorcase with a four-centred head. Church House is part of an important group that includes the church, green, and estate yard.

Local climate

Church House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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