The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-tower-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rugby
- Constituency
- Rugby MP: John Slinger (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Monks Kirby
- OS grid reference
- SP 490 830
- Coordinates
- 52.44333, -1.27913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with an early to mid-19th century wing. It features a timber frame with brick infill, while the wing is constructed of brick. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, and there is a brick internal stack as well as a ridge stack on the wing. The building has a two-unit plan that extends to form a T-plan, with the 17th-century range creating a cross wing on the right. The house is two storeys tall with an attic, while the 19th-century wing has one storey and an attic.
The Cottage has three bays, and the 19th-century wing includes an open timber porch at the angle. The entrance features a plank door, and there are two- and three-light casement windows with glazing bars throughout. Most of the ground-floor windows have brick segmental arches, and there are no first-floor windows. To the left, there is a small single-storey range, and the cross wing has no windows facing the road. The left return side has three-light casements, while the right return side displays a three-window range. Additionally, there are two roof dormers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings