Pair of Cottages 20 Yards to South of Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. A C18 Cottage.
Pair of Cottages 20 Yards to South of Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-brick-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- ST 805 820
- Coordinates
- 51.53723, -2.28165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of estate cottages, located 20 yards south of Briar Cottage, dates from around 1750 and is attributed to Thomas Wright of Durham. The cottages are rendered and feature a hipped thatched roof with overhanging eaves and decorative cut boarding, along with brick stacks. They are designed in a Gothic cottage orne style with a T plan.
The southern cottage is a single storey with attics, characterized by two arched 'eyebrows'. It has two projecting bay windows on the ground floor, each with 1-2-1 light casements, and two-light casements in the attics, all adorned with Gothic pointed tracery and decorative lead glazing. There is a panelled door to the left and a 20th-century door in the east gable.
The northern cottage features a lower rear wing and has a thatched roof that sweeps down to form a pentice supported by rustic timber piers. It is also a single storey with an attic and contains two 2-light casements with similar glazing to the southern cottage, along with a central 20th-century door. The southern cottage originally had a pentice as well, but this was a separate structure from the roof and was removed in the 1970s to 1980s.
Local climate
Pair of Cottages 20 Yards to South of Briar Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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