Virginia Cottage and Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Virginia Cottage and Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-cobble-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Virginia Cottage and Primrose Cottage, Minchinhampton, GL5 5DF
- OS grid reference
- SO 853 024
- Coordinates
- 51.72094, -2.2141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage and Primrose Cottage is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two houses, dating from the early to mid-17th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble limestone with ashlar chimneys and features a stone slate roof. It is a single-storey structure with an attic.
The front of the building has two gables. The left gable is part of Virginia Cottage and includes a doorway with a four-panel door and a two-light chamfered mullioned casement beneath a combined hoodmould, along with a two-light window with a hoodmould in the gable above. To the left, there are two 19th-century restored three-light casements and a gabled attic roof dormer. The right side, Primrose Cottage, features a gable with a doorway and a three-light casement under a combined hoodmould, along with a three-light casement above. There is also a further ground floor three-light window to the left and a gabled attic roof dormer above. The building has ridge-mounted chimneys with plain caps.
The west end has a rebuilt gable end with an attached outbuilding. The rear of the building has two gables and a mix of mullioned and later windows. There is a 20th-century addition to Primrose Cottage. The interiors have not been inspected. Originally, this building was part of Mugmoor Farm.
Local climate
Virginia Cottage and Primrose 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 — 5 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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