Minstrel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1972. House. 1 related planning application.

Minstrel Cottage

WRENN ID
twisted-transept-pearl
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
Minstrel Cottage, the Green, Tanworth-In-Arden, B94 5AJ
OS grid reference
SP 113 706
Coordinates
52.33388, -1.83448
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Minstrel Cottage is a house dating from around 1800, with later additions and alterations. It is built of painted brick in Flemish bond and features a renewed gabled plain-tile roof. The building has two storeys and two first-floor windows. On the first floor, there are 8/8 sash windows set in plain reveals with sills. The ground floor has a central part-glazed, four-panel door surrounded by a moulded wood frame and topped with a hood. There are canted bay windows that include 8/8 sashes between 4/4 sashes, complete with overlights and cornices. The eaves have a cogged band, and there are end stacks with cornices. The interior has not been inspected. All listed buildings on The Green form a group.

Local climate

Minstrel Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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