The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-vault-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Horsley
- OS grid reference
- ST 838 983
- Coordinates
- 51.68371, -2.23515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a detached house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed of random rubble limestone with rendered brick chimneys and a stone slate roof. The building is two stories tall with an attic.
On the west front, there are two full gables and a two-window arrangement featuring chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds, including both two and three-light windows. Above the main attic casements, there is a smaller single-light window, each with a flat hood. The ground floor includes a casement and a window in the lower garage wing to the right, which are 20th-century restorations.
The north end of the house is built against a high-level road and has a gable-mounted chimney. The east side features two full gables with scattered fenestration, including a central ground floor four-light casement with a hoodmould and two-light casements on the upper floors. There are also two blocked doorways to the right, one leading to the upper floor and one to the attic, which likely originally had external stairs. The interior has not been inspected. The Cottage is part of a group with the Old White Hart.
Local climate
The 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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