Splash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. Former mill manager's house.

Splash Cottage

WRENN ID
silent-stone-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stroud
Constituency
Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1987
Type
Former mill manager's house
Address
Splash Cottage, Beards Mill, Leonard Stanley
OS grid reference
SO 795 048
Coordinates
51.74222, -2.29817
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Splash Cottage is a former mill manager's house, now a residential property attached to Leonard Stanley House. It dates from the late 18th century and is constructed of coursed rubble limestone with brick additions. The building features ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof, with pantiles on the outbuilding.

The cottage is two storeys high and has a double pile plan. The front elevation has two windows, with a flat mullioned three-light window on the right and a two-light window to the left above a doorway that has a stone lintel and an eight-panel door. A circular light has been inserted into the central upper floor.

On the north side, there are two gables, each with a gable-mounted chimney; the left chimney is made of ashlar with a moulded cap, while the right has been rebuilt in artificial stone. There is a two-storey brick addition to the left gable, which features a small Gothic casement window on the upper floor and a doorway below with a timber lintel and a plank door.

An attached brick outbuilding spans the mill leat on stone segmental arches and includes a Gothic window with intersecting glazing bars, along with 20th-century glazed doors to the right. The rear of the cottage has similar fenestration to the front, but the central doorway is blocked with a timber casement. The outbuilding has a large Gothic iron casement and two smaller 20th-century Gothic casements. Splash Cottage is part of a group with Leonard Stanley House and the mill workshop.

Local climate

Splash 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 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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