Slys Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. Former shop and post office. 1 related planning application.
Slys Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-storey-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- Former shop and post office
- Address
- Slys Cottage, A 435, Colesbourne, GL53 9NP
- OS grid reference
- SO 999 132
- Coordinates
- 51.81801, -2.00157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slys Cottage is a 17th-century building that was formerly a shop and post office, and is now used as a house. It is constructed from random rubble limestone and features a stone slate roof with a brick chimney. The cottage is single-storey with an attic and consists of two rooms. Inside, there is a fireplace and a spiral staircase located in the gable end.
The front of the cottage has an off-centre doorway that includes a reused Classical lintel. To the left of the doorway, there is a two-light window with a recessed chamfered mullion and a hoodmould. To the right, there is a timber casement window with a timber lintel. The cottage also has two roof dormers that contain 19th-century casements. A blocked doorway can be found at the gable end, along with a two-light window in the attic. At the back, there is one two-light window. In the attic, part of the roof truss is visible, featuring an arched collar.
Local climate
Slys Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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