The Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1987. A Early Modern Cottage.
The Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-chapel-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- The Keeper's Cottage, Great Witcombe
- OS grid reference
- SO 919 140
- Coordinates
- 51.82475, -2.11768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Keeper's Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid-17th century. It features square-panelled timber-framing with rendered or painted brick infill, and the gable ends are made of limestone rubble. The roof is covered with cedar shingles and has an ashlar stack. The main body of the cottage is rectangular in shape, and there is a 20th-century flat-roofed extension at the rear, which is not of special interest. The cottage is 1½ storeys high and has two 2-light casement windows with horizontal glazing bars on the ground floor. There is a plank door and another 2-light casement window with glazing bars located far left, which is sheltered by a lean-to porch. A gable-end stack is present on the right gable end, accompanied by a projecting semi-circular bread oven on one side. The gable ends are half-hipped. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is part of the Witcombe Estate.
Local climate
The Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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