Straw Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Straw Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-keep-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Straw Cottage, the Burgage, Prestbury, GL52 3DL
- OS grid reference
- SO 967 239
- Coordinates
- 51.9139, -2.04903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Straw Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in a row of buildings on the west side of The Burgage in Prestbury. It features a timber-framed structure that has been rendered, topped with a thatched roof and has a rectangular plan. The cottage is 1½ storeys high and has a two-windowed facade with two eyebrow dormers on the first floor. All windows are 20th-century two-light casements with diamond leaded panes. The central entrance has a 20th-century plank door adorned with decorative strap hinges. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Straw Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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