South Cottage and North Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
South Cottage and North Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-hearth-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- South Cottage and North Cottage, High Street, Woodchester, GL5 5EL
- OS grid reference
- SO 839 021
- Coordinates
- 51.71742, -2.23424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Cottage and North Cottage are a pair of cottages, originally three houses in a row, dating from the early to mid-18th century. They are located on the west side of High Street, South Woodchester. The buildings are constructed of coursed and random rubble limestone with black pointing, and have brick chimneys and a stone slate roof.
The cottages are two storeys with an attic, and include a small single-storey section at the south end. The front elevation has a two-window arrangement to each house. Windows are a mix of timber casements, with some upper floor iron casements, one within North Cottage featuring leading. All windows have timber lintels; the lintel over the doorway of North Cottage combines with a casement window to its right, which was formerly a door position. Another casement window is located to the right. Plank doors are present. Two casements feature in the single-storey section of South Cottage. Two raking roof dormers are visible. Chimneys rise from the ridge of the roof. The interior has not been inspected. Small archival records indicate restoration work carried out by the Period Cottage Improvement Society in 1963.
Local climate
South Cottage and North 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 19 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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