Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-remnant-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Cottage, 53, Gretton Road, Gotherington, GL52 9QU
- OS grid reference
- SO 968 296
- Coordinates
- 51.96501, -2.04758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, originally two cottages that have now been combined into one. The construction is timber framing with limestone rubble and a thatched roof, featuring decorative ridge thatching. The roof also has limestone rubble and brick stacks. The layout is roughly L-shaped. The house has one and a half storeys. The gable end facing the road has two fixed windows with heavy-pegged frames and a single light each. A three-light, curved-headed casement window is located on the ground floor of the return. There are two eyebrow dormers on the first floor, one with two lights and one with three. A 20th-century plank door is set within an open-sided thatched porch. The range at right angles has a tall, single-light casement and a three-light casement on the ground floor, with a three-light eyebrow dormer above. Two three-light casements are located on the ground floor of the single-storey range adjoining. A large, projecting bread oven with a stone slate roof extends from the rear wall of this range. A projecting gable-end stack and an axial stack (formerly a gable end stack) are present. The interior remains unexamined. A bread oven with a stone slate roof projects from the rear wall.
Local climate
Willow Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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