Olde England is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1987. Cottage.
Olde England
- WRENN ID
- rooted-mantel-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Olde England, Kidnappers Lane, Leckhampton with Warden Hill
- OS grid reference
- SO 940 196
- Coordinates
- 51.87562, -2.08754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Olde England is a former pair of cottages that have been combined into one building. It dates from the late 16th century to the mid-17th century, with some 20th-century alterations. The structure features square-panelled timber framing with rendered infill, set on a dressed stone plinth. The left gable end is made of coursed squared and dressed limestone. The building has a thatched roof with decorative ridge thatching and a red brick chimney stack. The earlier section has been extended to the right, creating an 'L'-shaped overall plan in the 20th century.
It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring one ground floor 2-light fixed casement window without glazing bars, and a 20th-century metal casement window with glazing bars on the far right. There are two 2-light eyebrow dormers with 20th-century metal casements with glazing bars on the first floor. The central entrance has a 20th-century panelled door. Notably, the exterior timbers of the early range display carpenter's marks in the form of Roman numerals. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a bressumer beam that has the date 1687 crudely carved into it, along with a segmental-headed opening to a bread oven on the right and a beam with bar stops. The building was formerly known as Fields Cottage.
Local climate
Olde England receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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