Drover's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Drover's Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1986
Type
House
Address
Drover's Cottage, 26 and 53, Cound, SY5 6AS
OS grid reference
SJ 552 048
Coordinates
52.63985, -2.66345
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Drover's Cottage is a house that has now been divided, likely dating from the 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the mid- to late 19th century. It features a timber frame that has been partly rebuilt and possibly refaced in rendered and painted brick, with painted imitation framing, and has plain tile roofs. The building is arranged in a U-plan, with a central hall range consisting of probably two framed bays and flanking gabled cross-wings, also probably two framed bays, projecting to the northwest.

The northwest front has a dentil brick eaves cornice on the hall range, along with a central gabled eaves dormer that contains a two-light wooden casement. There are large brick ridge stacks, with one stack to the left just off-centre to the right, featuring paired star-shaped shafts and oversailing tops, as well as an integral brick lateral stack on the right-hand cross-wing. The hall range includes a 19th-century two-light segmental-headed wooden casement on the left and a 19th-century three-light wooden casement on the right. The left-hand cross-wing has a 20th-century three-light wooden casement on each floor, while the gabled cross-wing to the right features a first-floor 20th-century two-light wooden casement, two glazed doors, and a 20th-century lean-to porch with casements flanking a central half-glazed door. There is also a gabled eaves dormer and porch to No. 26 at the rear.

Inside, the cottage has collar and tie-beam roof trusses, chamfered purlins, and chamfered beams, joists, and wall-plate.

Local climate

Drover's Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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