Coombe Cottage Mercia Cottage Number 3 and Abbots Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1959. Cottage row. 2 related planning applications.
Coombe Cottage Mercia Cottage Number 3 and Abbots Retreat
- WRENN ID
- pale-dormer-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1959
- Type
- Cottage row
- Address
- Coombe Cottage Mercia Cottage Number 3 and Abbots Retreat, Main Street, Offenham, WR11 8QD
- OS grid reference
- SP 053 463
- Coordinates
- 52.11544, -1.92316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coombe Cottage, Mercia Cottage, Number 3, and Abbots Retreat form a cottage row dating to the early 18th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. The building is timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill, built upon a stone plinth, and has a thatched roof. It likely originally comprised seven framed bays, featuring stacks at the junctions. The property has one storey with an attic space lit by four eyebrow dormers. The ground floor has a mix of 1 + 3 + 2 + 2 casement windows, predominantly 2-light casements from the 20th century. Entrance doors are modern, ledged and boarded. Abbots Retreat and Mercia Cottage have had garage doors inserted. The timber framing is of elm, constructed in three square panels. The Ordnance Survey records Abbots Retreat as "Sarnia."
Local climate
Coombe Cottage Mercia Cottage Number 3 and Abbots Retreat receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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.
- Sale history — 23 transactions since 1997
- 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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