Oversley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. Cottage.
Oversley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-tallow-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oversley Cottage, Primrose Lane, Alcester, B49 6LQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 093 568
- Coordinates
- 52.20953, -1.86491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oversley Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Oversley Green. It features a timber frame with lath and plaster infill and has a thatched roof with a brick ridge stack. The cottage has a three-unit plan and is one storey high with an attic, presenting a two-window range. The entrance includes a 20th-century door and a porch made of brick and weatherboard. The windows exhibit irregular placement, with 19th and 20th-century casements throughout, and there are three ground-floor windows topped with thatched hoods. The cottage also has two swept dormers. The end walls and rear of the building display exposed framing, with the right end wall featuring decorative bracing. Inside, there is much exposed framing and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. Additionally, there is a single-storey wing from the 19th or 20th century that extends partly across the right end and to the rear.
Local climate
Oversley 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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