Traveller's Joy is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Traveller's Joy
- WRENN ID
- roaming-corbel-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Traveller's Joy, B4068, Swell, GL54 1LF
- OS grid reference
- SP 176 255
- Coordinates
- 51.92851, -1.74447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Traveller's Joy is a cottage dating from the 17th century, which has been modernised in the late 20th century. It is constructed of rubble with a Cotswold stone roof and a brick chimney on the right-hand side. The cottage has two Cotswold dormer gables; the right-hand gable features a two-light mullioned window. The ground floor has three windows with segment heads, and a door to the left. Inside, one upper cruck truss is visible, alongside an inglenook at the east end containing a chamfered spine beam with raised stops.
Local climate
Traveller's Joy 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 — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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