Grooms Cottage and multi-functional outbuilding, with attached garden walls is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 2020. Cottage, outbuilding.
Grooms Cottage and multi-functional outbuilding, with attached garden walls
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-hammer-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 2020
- Type
- Cottage, outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- SO 740 142
- Coordinates
- 51.82625, -2.37751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th century multi-functional outbuilding and a mid-to-late 19th century coach house, accompanied by attached garden walls. Later alterations were made in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The buildings are primarily constructed of brick, with the rear wall of the coach house built of coursed stone. Plain clay tiles cover the pitched roofs, and two brick stacks serve Grooms Cottage. The buildings have a rectangular, single-depth plan, comprising a two-storey coach house and a lower, two-storey outbuilding arranged side-by-side. A set of steps allows access to a loft space; access to the first floor of the coach house has been blocked.
The south-east elevation of the coach house has five uneven bays, featuring a stack positioned centrally to the left and a gable-end stack to the right. Ground-floor openings have brick segmental heads, with keystones above the second, fourth, and fifth bays. Originally, the second bay served as a stable entrance, and the bay to the right was a window. Modern sliding garage doors, composed of three leaves with glazed upper sections, now occupy this space. The first floor contains two-light casement windows above the former stable, and three-light casement windows above the former garage, all with glazing bars and tiled cills. The south-west gable end features a five-berth dovecote. The interior was refurbished in the mid-20th century, with all woodwork, door and window hardware, fireplaces, and a re-used Regency fireplace with a mid-20th century grate dating from this period.
The south-east elevation of the outbuilding steps down toward the north end. It has an off-centre double door, with a single door and small window on each side. Above are an eight-over-eight sash window, a six-light window, and a further window to the right. The north-east gable end features a ground-floor door and an eight-over-eight sash window on the first floor. Openings, excluding the sash windows, have segmental brick heads. The interior is divided into separate rooms with some evidence of blocked openings. The two-stall stable retains its stall partition, feeding trough, and cobbled floor. The loft contains pegged tie beam trusses with through purlins.
Attached to the gable ends of both buildings are remains of brick garden boundary walls, with the wall to the north-east continuing to a wrought iron gate.
Local climate
Grooms Cottage and multi-functional outbuilding, with attached garden walls 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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