High Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
High Cottages
- WRENN ID
- narrow-baluster-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- High Cottages, Winstone, GL7 7LP
- OS grid reference
- SO 961 095
- Coordinates
- 51.78444, -2.05766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Cottages is an 18th-century detached house, later altered in the 19th century and then again in the late 20th century, and now functioning as a single house. It was originally designed with a central staircase plan, but was divided into two houses in the 19th century. It is constructed from coursed and squared rubble limestone, with a stone slate roof.
The house is two storeys with an attic. The front facade has a three-window arrangement over two storeys. A hipped porch, originally part of the 19th-century division, remains above the central doorway. The window openings contain 19th-century sash windows with plain beaded architraves and keystones. A plain band runs along the upper floor level. Ashlar chimneys with moulded caps are set on the parapet end gables. The sides of the rear wings have small-paned casement windows with stone lintels.
The rear of the house features three gable ends; the two outer gables are part of the 19th-century wings and have ridge-mounted ashlar chimneys, while the central gable is a late 20th-century infill. Each wing has a single, small-paned casement window with a stone lintel. One wing has a small brick lean-to addition. A single window on one wing has artificial stone surrounds. A 20th-century plank door is present.
The front garden is bounded by flanking stone walls and hoop-topped iron railings with a matching gate. The cottages dominate the centre of the village.
Local climate
High Cottages 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 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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