3 and 4 is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 2000. Cottage.

3 and 4

WRENN ID
fossil-courtyard-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stratford-on-Avon
Constituency
Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 2000
Type
Cottage
Address
3 and 4, Alderminster
OS grid reference
SP 226 489
Coordinates
52.13853, -1.6705
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a pair of estate cottages constructed in the 1860s by J Ross for James Roberts West. They are made of brick and feature a tile roof with fishscale bands and a brick cross-axial stack with front and rear diagonal shafts. The cottages are arranged in a T-plan and stand two storeys high with a two-window range.

The exterior includes a plain cornice that runs around the gables, wide eaves and verges, and a pair of gabled projections at the centre. Each end has a segmental-headed entrance with a plank door that has enriched strap hinges, all under a brick labelmould. The segmental-headed windows have weathered sills; the ground floor windows feature 3-light latticed casements beneath brick labelmoulds, while the first-floor windows have 2-light latticed casements. The returns of the projections have single lights under labelmoulds. There is also a single-storey rear wash house.

The interior has not been inspected. These cottages are a good and little-altered example of estate housing, part of a row of seven pairs, most of which have been altered. The design won a prize from the Royal Agricultural Society in 1861, and a copy of the plan, with slight differences, is preserved in the estate papers.

Local climate

3 and 4 receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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