The Mound and Kendal Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Warwickshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. House.
The Mound and Kendal Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-cloister-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Warwickshire
- Constituency
- North Warwickshire and Bedworth MP: Rachel Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Mound and Kendal Cottage, Nether Whitacre
- OS grid reference
- SP 225 918
- Coordinates
- 52.5241, -1.66863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mound and Kendal Cottage is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. It dates from the late 16th century, with a rear wing added in the 17th century. The building is timber framed with plastered infill panels and some brick replacement, featuring a sandstone plinth and a plain-tile roof with a central brick stack. The main structure is a two-cell range aligned north-south, facing west, with a rear wing aligned east-west and a later cross-wing at the southern end. It has one storey and an attic.
The exterior displays close studding with a middle rail and straight braces. There are three 20th-century ground floor windows of unequal size, two blocked windows just below the eaves, and a 20th-century gabled dormer to the right. A 20th-century stable-type door is located to the right, beneath a bracketed flat hood. The left gable end retains its close studded wall framing and features a double collar roof truss with a king strut and herringbone pattern bracing, supporting one pair of trenched purlins.
The rear wing, known as Kendal Cottage, has two tiers of large panels with painted brick infill, a plain-tile roof, and a brick external end stack. It also has one storey and an attic, with two flat-roofed dormers.
Inside the main house, The Mound, there are cross beams with wide stopped chamfers. The southern room features a large open fireplace made of sandstone and brick, with a timber bressumer and a timber-framed smoke hood above. The interior includes an exposed central roof truss with raking queen struts and a central vertical strut between the tie beam and collar. The tie beam is arched over a doorway, which is the only means of communication between the two attic rooms.
Local climate
The Mound and Kendal 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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