Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. House.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-ashlar-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fern Cottage, Coopers Pitch, Rodborough
- OS grid reference
- SO 857 028
- Coordinates
- 51.72382, -2.20727
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is a small detached house dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of random rubble limestone, which is now painted, with a rendered brick chimney and a concrete plain tile roof. The house is two stories high with an attic.
The front of the cottage features a two-window arrangement. On the ground floor, the right window is a three-light chamfered mullioned casement with a hoodmould, while to the left is a timber casement with a timber lintel. The upper floor has two two-light chamfered mullioned casements. There is a central doorway that is sheltered by a planked gabled porch. A large central 20th-century gabled roof dormer is also present.
At the west end, there is a lean-to addition that is not considered of special interest. The east end of the cottage has a gable end with a three-light ground floor casement and a two-light casement on the upper floor and attic, both featuring hoodmoulds and relieving arches. The cottage is built into a bank at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Fern Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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