Booker's is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1987. Former poorhouse, cottage.
Booker's
- WRENN ID
- twisted-doorway-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1987
- Type
- Former poorhouse, cottage
- Address
- Booker's, Town End, Coberley
- OS grid reference
- SO 956 161
- Coordinates
- 51.84407, -2.06493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Booker's is a former poorhouse that was later converted into four cottages and is now a single house. It dates from the mid-17th century and features a later extension. The building is constructed of limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins and has a stone slate roof on the east-facing pitch, with slate at the rear. There are remnants of two ashlar stacks, both raised in brick, and one rendered stack. The structure has a rectangular plan with the gable end facing the road and a lean-to extension at the rear.
It stands two storeys high, with a 1½ storey lean-to at the back. The ground floor has three 2-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements with horizontal glazing bars, showing traces of red colour wash. There are also 2-light fixed casements with horizontal glazing bars and dressed stone surrounds that infill former doorways. The first floor features two 4-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars. A central 20th-century plank door with a 20th-century timber lintel is set within a 20th-century rubble porch. Additionally, there are three plank doors with early hinges and thumb latches. The far left-hand doorway is located within an open-sided 20th-century porch, and to the right of this porch is a small reused trefoil-headed stone window. The building has three 2-light casements on both the ground and first floors, as well as gable-end and axial stacks.
While the interior has not been inspected, it is known to contain an open fireplace with a bressumer. The house is named after John Booker, who purchased it when the Coberley estate was sold in 1720.
Local climate
Booker's 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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