Midsummer's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. House.

Midsummer's Cottage

WRENN ID
pale-banister-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rugby
Constituency
Rugby MP: John Slinger (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1986
Type
House
Address
Midsummer's Cottage, Rugby Road, Pailton, CV23 0QH
OS grid reference
SP 471 816
Coordinates
52.43123, -1.30845
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Midsummer's Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with a mid-18th century brick facade. It is timber-framed, featuring plaster and brick infill at the rear and a brick facade at the front. The cottage has a thatched roof with brick stacks along the ridge. It is one storey plus an attic and has a range of four windows. The original layout was a lobby-entry plan. There is a 19th-century plank door set within a 20th-century thatched porch, and another 19th-century plank door to the right. The ground storey includes three 19th and 20th-century three-light casement windows, along with two dormers in the attic storey located to the left and centre. The mid-18th century facade features two ground storey windows with gauged brick lintels, while two windows on the later facade to the right have segmental brick lintels. The mid-18th century facade also has a storey band and a stone plinth at the rear. Inside, the cottage is noted for its beams, which are chamfered and have stops, as well as an open fireplace and timber-framed partitions.

Local climate

Midsummer's Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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