Wood's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1987. House.
Wood's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-step-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wood's Cottage, Dymock
- OS grid reference
- SO 698 314
- Coordinates
- 51.98067, -2.4411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood's Cottage is a house that likely dates from the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure features part timber framing with brick nogging and part Flemish-bond brickwork, along with a rendered extension on the left. The roof is thatched, with multi-roll Bridgewater tiles, while the lean-to has double-roll concrete tiles. The cottage is two or three bays wide, one room deep, and stands at 1½ storeys, with a late 20th-century extension adding one bay.
The front of the house faces the street and includes a continuous lean-to verandah supported by four timber posts, topped with a Bridgewater tile roof. At the rear, there is a single-light casement window on the right, a boarded door, and a two-light casement window with glass tiles above in the verandah roof. To the left, there is another single-light casement and a boarded door located just beyond the gable under the end of the verandah. A two-light iron casement window is found in the lean-to across the gable, and there appears to be a late 20th-century three-light casement window in a swept dormer.
The left return of the house features a half-hip, and there is a brick gable chimney. The right return shows an exposed cruck in the gable, with the ground floor now entirely brick between the blades, featuring a single-pane window and a two-light casement window on the first floor.
Local climate
Wood's Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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