The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1977. House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-bracket-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Monmouth Road, Longhope
- OS grid reference
- SO 690 187
- Coordinates
- 51.86685, -2.45156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a detached house dating from the 17th century. It features a timber-framed structure with rendered panels and a tiled roof. The building was likely originally designed with three rooms in a line and has two floors, with the upper half set in the roof. The framing consists of two panels high, with the lower part rising nearly to the ground-floor ceiling.
The cottage has three late 20th-century metal windows, and to the right, there is a panel built up in random rubble. The door is now located near the right-hand end, sheltered by a late 20th-century porch, and a late 20th-century garage covers the last section of the facade. There is a lateral chimney on the rear wall towards the right-hand end, and on the left gable, there is a large external chimney made of painted rubble stone, topped with a small brick section.
Local climate
The Old Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2008
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