Straws Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1976. Cottage.

Straws Cottage

WRENN ID
tall-spindle-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newark and Sherwood
Constituency
Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1976
Type
Cottage
Address
Straws Cottage, Quaker Lane, Farnsfield
OS grid reference
SK 649 565
Coordinates
53.10204, -1.03198
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Straws Cottage is a cottage built in the late 18th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a pantile roof with two red brick gable stacks and dogtooth eaves. The cottage is two storeys high and has three bays.

On the front, there are two glazing bar Yorkshire sashes set under segmental arches. The right bay projects and is gabled, containing two 20th-century casements. There is a doorway with a part-glazed door in the side wall, and above it is a single glazing bar Yorkshire sash. To the right of this, there is a small glazing bar casement, and in the side wall of the projecting wing, there is a single 20th-century casement.

The rear wall, which faces Main Street, has a single glazing bar Yorkshire sash and a tripartite sash to the right, both of which are similar in style.

Local climate

Straws Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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