Concrete Block Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 2001. Estate house.
Concrete Block Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-keystone-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rugby
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 2001
- Type
- Estate house
- Address
- Concrete Block Cottage, Vicarage Lane, Dunchurch, CV22 6QP
- OS grid reference
- SP 487 714
- Coordinates
- 52.33878, -1.28559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Concrete Block Cottage is an estate house built in 1906 by Gilbert Fraser of Liverpool for John Lancaster, with the date noted on the rainwater head. The cottage features concrete blocks that imitate rockfaced stone and tooled ashlar, all painted. It has a hipped plain tile roof with two coped ridge stacks and rockfaced quoins. The building is two storeys plus attics and has a symmetrical front with a central half-glazed door flanked by single lights, and pairs of 2-light windows beyond. Above this, there are similar windows arranged in a pattern of 2/1/2, and a box dormer with three lights. The windows are glazing bar casements, and all external joinery appears to be original. At the rear, there is a single storey flat-roofed projection with a 4-light window, and above it, two windows with 1 and 2 lights. The interior is not accessible, but major elements seem to be intact.
Local climate
Concrete Block Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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