Driftwood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Driftwood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-hearth-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1968
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Driftwood Cottage, Hill Croome, WR8 9DQ
- OS grid reference
- SO 878 418
- Coordinates
- 52.07504, -2.17897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Driftwood Cottage is a 17th century cottage with a timber frame and painted brick. It has one and a half storeys and features a gable-ended roof covered in cedar shingles, which was formerly thatched. The cottage includes two modern gabled dormers and has outside end wall stacks with timber framed lean-tos surrounding it. The front has a two-window range of modern casements.
Local climate
Driftwood Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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