Horseshoe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1987. House.
Horseshoe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-cupola-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Horseshoe Cottage, 1 and 2, Main Road, Whiteshill and Ruscombe
- OS grid reference
- SO 840 070
- Coordinates
- 51.76166, -2.23284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horseshoe Cottage consists of two houses in a row, dating from the late 17th century and mid 18th century. They are constructed from random and coursed squared rubble limestone, with ashlar and red brick chimneys, and have a concrete tile roof. The buildings are two-storey with an attic.
The front of No 1 features a single-window layout, with a 3-light window on the ground floor and a 2-light window above, both having chamfered mullions and hoodmoulds. The ground floor window's hoodmould links and rises over a doorway to the right, which has a stone lintel. No 2 has a two-window layout, with all windows being 2-light and featuring hoodmoulds; the ground floor hoodmould rises over a central doorway with a timber lintel. There is a 20th-century lean-to porch addition that is not of special interest. A single flat-roofed dormer with a 20th-century casement is also present, along with three ridge-mounted chimneys. Attached buildings at each end are not of special interest. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Horseshoe 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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