Priory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House.
Priory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-nave-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Priory Cottage, Bledisloe, Awre
- OS grid reference
- SO 699 091
- Coordinates
- 51.78032, -2.43703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Cottage is a detached house located off Awre Road in Bledisloe. It dates from the 17th century, with an early 19th-century wing added. The building features a mix of rubble and painted brick, topped with a Welsh slate roof that is hipped over the extension. The property is divided into two units, with the older gabled section connected to the taller hipped extension.
The main facade faces north towards the river and consists of two storeys plus a central dormer. The older section has two widely spaced windows, while the extension has two windows as well. On the ground floor, there is a new canted bay window and a four-panel door set within a new porch. The windows are sash style with glazing bars. The first floor has two pairs of sash windows with glazing bars, and a small two-light casement dormer.
Inside, there is a large fireplace and stack on the left side, flanked by a stone newel staircase. The roof features untreated oak with heavy pegged members. In the entrance hall on the south side, there is a reused barge mast or spar serving as a beam.
Local climate
Priory Cottage 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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