Porch Cottage and Outbuildings at Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Porch Cottage and Outbuildings at Rear
- WRENN ID
- half-hammer-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Porch Cottage and Outbuildings at Rear, Little Rissington, GL54 2ND
- OS grid reference
- SP 190 198
- Coordinates
- 51.87712, -1.7241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porch Cottage and associated outbuildings, located in Little Rissington village, date from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Originally a single house, it was later divided into two cottages and incorporates a former dovecote. The main cottage is constructed from roughly squared and dressed limestone, with bands of orange and cream coloured limestone in the dovecote section. The roof is stone slate, with concrete tile and corrugated asbestos to later rear extensions. The building features an ashlar stack, a stump of an ashlar stack, and a 20th-century artificial stone stack.
The cottage is two storeys high, while the dovecote section is one-and-a-half storeys with a forward-facing gable. The cottage has a single, double-chamfered, three-light stone-mullioned casement window with a stopped hood. A similar three-light casement window is present in the gable and on the ground floor of the dovecote/cottage. There are two 20th-century glazed doors on the ground floor. A 20th-century open-sided porch with weatherboarded gable replaces an earlier porch with stone pillars modelled on turned woodwork, which was removed around 1950. A three-light wooden casement sits between the two doorways. The dovecote features blocked pigeon holes and projecting landing platforms on its forward-facing gable, with similar features to the left gable end. A blocked window is located towards the apex of the left-hand gable. A two-storey extension at a right angle to the main body, formerly used to house a bull, is present at the rear. It has a stable-type door with a timber lintel and a small, shuttered opening with a timber lintel on the upper right side. A single-storey store to the left features early vertical planking with fillets, representing a rare survival of plank construction. The interior of the house has not been inspected.
Local climate
Porch Cottage and Outbuildings at Rear 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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