South Close Cottage and Walls Linking with Southayes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
South Close Cottage and Walls Linking with Southayes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- salt-garret-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- South Close Cottage and Walls Linking with Southayes Cottage, Sheep Street, Stow-On-The-Wold, GL54 1AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 191 256
- Coordinates
- 51.92888, -1.72358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Close Cottage and the adjoining walls to Southayes Cottage date from the 16th or early 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century and modern updates. The cottage is constructed of rubble stone and is set back from the street, accessed via an alleyway that passes beneath its east end and continues to the rear walls. It has a Cotswold stone roof and plain chimneys. The first floor features three small two-light casement windows. The ground floor has an irregular arrangement of four windows and two doorways, which are modern. The alleyway on the right side is ceiled with old timbers. A gabled L-plan extension to the north serves as a coach-house for Woolcomber. Inside, the cottage has a lobby entrance and a massive chimney with a staircase attached. One timber-framed partition is exposed. The roof displays stout coupled rafters, with one truss featuring a curved collar and two levels of purlins. Rubble walls, ranging in height from 6 to 9 feet, link the cottage to Southayes Cottage to the north.
Local climate
South Close Cottage and Walls Linking with Southayes Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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