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
- tangled-merlon-root
- 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
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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