Bear Cottage Gardener's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1986. A C17 Cottage.
Bear Cottage Gardener's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-bastion-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bear Cottage Gardener's Cottage, Driffield Village
- OS grid reference
- SU 073 997
- Coordinates
- 51.6966, -1.89455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bear Cottage and Gardener's Cottage is a building that was formerly several adjoining cottages, now combined into two. It dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century and is constructed of random coursed rubble stone with a stone slate roof and scattered rendered stacks. The building has an L-shaped layout and features either two storeys or a single storey with an attic.
The eastern front has two small two-light wooden casement windows located under the eaves, a boarded door to the left with a flat stone hood supported by brackets, and a four-light 20th-century leaded casement window with a concrete lintel to the right. The main range extends to the south along the lane and has two small gables. The fenestration is scattered, with some windows renewed and others in blocked doorways, mostly featuring timber lintels.
Local climate
Bear Cottage Gardener's 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 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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