The Thatched Cottage and Rose Cottage and Limestone Flag Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Thatched Cottage and Rose Cottage and Limestone Flag Wall
- WRENN ID
- dusted-rotunda-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage and Rose Cottage and Limestone Flag Wall, Main Street, Bledington, OX7 6UX
- OS grid reference
- SP 246 227
- Coordinates
- 51.90249, -1.64271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage and Rose Cottage are two semi-detached cottages located on Main Street in Bledington. The Thatched Cottage dates from the 17th century, while Rose Cottage is possibly from the late 17th to early 18th century. Both cottages have 20th-century extensions at the rear that are not of special interest. The buildings are constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone and sandstone, with brick stacks on ashlar stumps. The Thatched Cottage features a thatched roof, while Rose Cottage has a slate roof.
The cottages have a rectangular plan, with a projecting bread oven on the right gable end of The Thatched Cottage. Rose Cottage has a symmetrical facade, is two storeys high, and features a two-windowed first floor with 2-light casements. The ground floor has 2-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods, and a central plank door within a porch that has a corrugated iron canopy supported by breeze block walls.
The Thatched Cottage is one and a half storeys tall, with its upper floor lit by an eye-brow dormer that contains a 19th-century three-light metal casement. There is a blocked doorway on the lower left with a 2-light stone-mullioned window in the blocking, and a 2-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned window on the lower right. Both cottages have gable-end stacks. Additionally, there is a limestone flag retaining wall in front of the gardens. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage and Rose Cottage and Limestone Flag Wall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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