Weathervane Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1987. House.
Weathervane Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-fireplace-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Weathervane Cottage, Vicarage Lane, Childswickham
- OS grid reference
- SP 074 385
- Coordinates
- 52.04548, -1.89218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Weathervane Cottage is a 17th-century house located on Vicarage Lane in Childswickham. It features a combination of timber-framing and stone construction topped with a thatched roof. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. The south wall, which faces the road, is framed in three rows of square panels set on a stone base. On the ground floor, there are three casement windows. The left-hand gable wall is made of stone and has a stone chimney cap. The rear wall shows exposed framing in two rows of square panels and includes four windows on the ground floor.
Local climate
Weathervane Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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