Wells Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Residential. 1 related planning application.
Wells Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-rood-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Wells Farm Cottage, Blockley, GL55 6XH
- OS grid reference
- SP 184 378
- Coordinates
- 52.03845, -1.73175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wells Farm Cottage dates from around 1700 and is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed from squared and dressed rubble with tiled roofs. The right side features a coped verge. There is a modern chimney and modern gabled dormers. The cottage has two windows on the upper floor, which are 3-light casements with mullions, while the ground floor to the left has mid-19th century 3-light casements with cambered heads. To the left, there is a doorway with a cambered head. The right side has a lower projecting gabled wing that includes a 2-light mullioned window with a drip in the gable. At the rear, there is a two-storey 'L'-plan extension with two 3-light mullioned windows and a chamfered doorway in the angle. The building features paired chimneys.
Local climate
Wells Farm Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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