Glen Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.

Glen Cottage

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stratford-on-Avon
Constituency
Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 June 1986
Type
House
Address
Glen Cottage, High Street, Brailes, OX15 5HX
OS grid reference
SP 316 391
Coordinates
52.04952, -1.53961
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Glen Cottage is probably a late 17th-century building, originally two cottages, and later converted into a single house. It has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of regular coursed ironstone rubble, with a steeply pitched thatched roof and brick end stacks. It is a single-storey building with an attic. The front has a two-window arrangement. The central entrance features a plank door within a wooden frame, covered by a thatched hood, with a continuous wooden lintel incorporating a casement window to the right. Another three-light casement window is to the left. Two 20th-century half-dormers are visible on the front. There is a blocked entrance on the left side, and a thatched brick extension to the left, traditionally used as a wheelwright's shop. A thatched extension from the 20th century is on the right. At the rear, there is a kitchen outshut built from brick and stone. The interior is said to have had a ladder and spiral staircase, which were replaced by 20th-century stairs in the past 20 years. Original stone flags remain, along with chamfered beams and joists. The interior features massive end stacks.

Local climate

Glen Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% 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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