Snowdrop Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. House.
Snowdrop Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-passage-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Snowdrop Cottage, Town Street, Grassthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 796 676
- Coordinates
- 53.20025, -0.80876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Snowdrop Cottage is a 17th-century house that was restored and altered between 1983 and 1984. The building features remnants of timber framing with brick nogging and brickwork, topped with a 20th-century pantile roof and a plain tile verge. On the south side, there are remains of three bays of timber framing. The cottage has a single gable and ridge stacks, is two storeys high, and has an L-plan layout with a 20th-century two-storey rear wing to the east.
The north front includes a 20th-century gabled brick porch with a glazed door on the right, flanked by four Yorkshire sash windows on the left and a single Yorkshire sash window on the right, all of varying sizes and with segmental heads. Above this, there is an off-centre Yorkshire sash window, and further up, three 20th-century gabled dormers with casements.
On the south front, there are two casement windows with segmental heads on the left and two French windows on the right. Above these, there are two 20th-century gabled dormers with casements. The west front features a door on the left and a casement window on the right, both with segmental heads. The south gable has a casement window on each floor, both with segmental heads. The east front has four casement windows of different sizes, all with segmental heads.
Inside, the cottage has a bay post with a strut to the tie beam, and struts extending from the tie beam to the rafters. There is a central full-height timber-framed chimney, and to the west, a stud wall with wattle and daub infill. The roof structure was renewed around 1983.
Local climate
Snowdrop Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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