The Grey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House.

The Grey Cottage

WRENN ID
vacant-cobble-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stroud
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1990
Type
House
Address
The Grey Cottage, Gloucester Street, Painswick
OS grid reference
SO 866 099
Coordinates
51.78808, -2.19428
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Grey Cottage is a mid-19th century house located at the end of a short row on Gloucester Street in Painswick. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a concrete tile roof and stands 2½ storeys tall, featuring four windows. On the ground floor, there are two 12-pane sash windows flanking a panelled 19th-century door with a transom light. The first floor has three 12-pane sashes, with a possible fourth sash on the far left that may belong to Hillworth Cottage. The top floor is adorned with three flush gabled half-dormers, each with 4-pane sashes, and there is a 4-pane sash window at eaves level centered above the doorway. The house has two brick chimneys. A first-floor plat band runs continuously with the adjoining house, and it appears that the top floor was added later. The Grey Cottage is included mainly for its group value, contributing to the character of this section of the street.

Local climate

The Grey Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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