St Mary's Cottage and St Martha's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Residential. 1 related planning application.
St Mary's Cottage and St Martha's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-passage-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- St Mary's Cottage and St Martha's Cottage, 20, Great Hales Street, Market Drayton, TF9 3BY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 677 340
- Coordinates
- 52.90315, -2.48154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses dating from the mid to late 18th century, located on Great Hales Street in Market Drayton. The houses are constructed of painted brick, with the left-hand end wall rendered. They have a plain tile roof, a painted brick plinth, a plat band, and parapeted gable ends. A central brick ridge stack is present, along with integral brick end stacks. A pair of gabled dormers are situated on the right-hand side, each featuring a two-light wooden casement with plain barge boards.
The right-hand house has two windows and features wooden cross windows with tiled sills, the ground-floor windows having segmental heads. There is a roughly central six-panelled door with a segmental head, accessed by four stone steps and a gabled wooden lattic porch. A cast-iron bootscraper sits to the left of the doorway. The left-hand house has two bays; the first floor features 20-pane glazing bar sashes, while the ground floor has a segmental-headed three-light wooden casement to the left. The door on the right-hand side has six raised and fielded panels, and a four-part rectangular overlight with a segmental head. A flight of four dressed red and grey sandstone steps, set at a right angle to the door, incorporates a wrought-iron balustrade consisting of plain railings, twisted standards, and a plain rail with a curtail. The interiors of the houses have not been inspected.
Local climate
St Mary's Cottage and St Martha's Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- 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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