Dormer Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Dormer Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-sentry-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Coventry
- Constituency
- Coventry North West MP: Taiwo Owatemi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dormer Cottage, Washbrook Lane, Allesley, CV5 9FH
- OS grid reference
- SP 293 820
- Coordinates
- 52.43552, -1.56976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dormer Cottage is a house that likely dates from the mid-17th century, with an additional right-hand bay. It features timber framing, mostly covered by pebbledash, and has a tiled roof. The building is one storey high with an attic and consists of three bays. The windows are 20th-century casements, with two located on the ground floor in the left-hand bay. There are three gabled attic dormers, and the door in the middle bay is sheltered by a 20th-century porch. Gable chimneys are present. An exposed roof truss in the left-hand gable wall shows struts between the tie-beam and collar. Inside, the left-hand room has an inglenook, a chamfered spine beam, and exposed joists. A timber-framed wall between the second and third bays has external weathering on its right-hand face, indicating that the right-hand bay is an addition. In the attic, the roof trusses are similar to the one visible in the left-hand gable.
Local climate
Dormer 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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