The Little Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Little Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-brick-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Little Cottage, the Green, Bibury, GL7 5NE
- OS grid reference
- SP 111 066
- Coordinates
- 51.75885, -1.84027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Little Cottage is an early to mid-17th century house with attached former outbuildings, situated on The Green in Bibury. The construction is of random and coursed rubble limestone, with ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof. The house is a single storey with an attic, and features an attached outbuilding on its west side.
The front elevation has three full gables, each with three windows. The ground floor windows are 3-light, while the gable windows are 2-light, each with three rows of pigeon holes and perches in the gable apex. A stone finial decorates the central gable. The windows are recessed chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds. A doorway, set between the central and right gables, includes a chamfered opening, glazed door, and a gabled timber porch. There are two ridge chimneys with plain caps; the chimney on the east end’s parapet gable is slightly off-centre. The east end’s recessed cavetto mullioned casements are two-light to the ground floor and single-light to the attic. A flat-roofed addition behind a screen wall with a coped top has been added to the outbuilding. The rear displays two gables, one with a 2-light recessed cavetto casement and the other containing a chimney.
Inside, there are some panelled partitions. A fine Tudor arched stone fireplace is located in the room at the east end.
Local climate
The Little Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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