Drakes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1972. A C17 House.

Drakes Cottage

WRENN ID
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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
2 August 1972
Type
House
Address
Drakes Cottage, Church Lane, Welford-On-Avon, CV37 8EL
OS grid reference
SP 146 523
Coordinates
52.16922, -1.78782
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Drakes Cottage is a house located on Church Lane in Welford-on-Avon. It dates back to the 17th century and has undergone some later alterations. The building features a timber frame with plastered infill set on a plastered rubble plinth, topped with a thatched roof that is half-hipped at one end and has a brick stack at the rear of the ridge.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a two-window range. The entrance, situated to the right of the centre, features a 20th-century battened door. The windows are 20th-century casements with three lights. The square framing of the house includes one brace to the wall plate, and the stack has two shafts. The right side of the cottage is attached to Box Tree Cottage. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Drakes 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 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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