The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1974. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
frozen-trefoil-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Coventry
Constituency
Coventry South MP: Zarah Sultana (YP)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1974
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, 12, Station Avenue
OS grid reference
SP 275 781
Coordinates
52.40028, -1.596
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a 16th-century house that features a timber frame with colourwashed brick nogging and a steeply pitched old tiled roof. It has two storeys and attics, with four windows on the west elevation. The right side displays elaborate curved braces in the panels, while there is a gable and a single-storey extension on the left. A brick chimneystack with four diagonally set shafts is also present.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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