Drive Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2002. Country house lodge.
Drive Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-cobble-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 2002
- Type
- Country house lodge
- Address
- Drive Cottage, Wraxall and Failand
- OS grid reference
- ST 505 711
- Coordinates
- 51.43738, -2.71293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drive Cottage is a country house lodge built around the mid-19th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features steeply-pitched clay tile roofs with bands of shaped tiles, overhanging eaves, and gable ends adorned with ornate pierced barge boards at the deep verges. The building has a stone axial stack.
The plan includes a gabled cross-wing on the right, which has a porch in the angle. The lodge is designed in a picturesque Gothic style and is one storey with an attic. The west front showcases the gabled cross-wing on the right, featuring ornate bargeboards, a pointed arch attic window in the gable, and a bay window on the ground floor. The gabled porch in the angle also has similar barge boards and a plank door, while the roof of the main range extends down to low eaves on the left.
The north side has a wide gable with low eaves and pointed arch windows, while the south side includes a 4-centred arch window and a small outshut. The interior has not been inspected. Drive Cottage is part of a series of Victorian lodges at Tyntesfield.
Local climate
Drive Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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