Drake's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1974. House.

Drake's Cottage

WRENN ID
eastward-joist-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exeter
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 June 1974
Type
House
Address
Drake's Cottage, Jubilee Square
OS grid reference
SX 967 877
Coordinates
50.68006, -3.46346
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Drake's Cottage is an 18th-century building located on Monmouth Hill in Topsham. It is rendered and adjoins No 14 The Strand, with its frontage set back. The cottage is three storeys high and features a red brick gable-end, with the gable itself being slate-hung. On the first floor, there is a three-light sash window, and the second floor has a slightly projecting splayed bay. The roof is covered in slate. All the listed buildings in Monmouth Hill form a group.

Local climate

Drake's Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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