Rake End Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. House.
Rake End Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-pavement-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rake End Cottage, Whiteshill and Ruscombe
- OS grid reference
- SO 836 073
- Coordinates
- 51.76471, -2.23807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rake End Cottage is a detached house dated 'T C 1713'. It is built from coursed and squared rubble limestone with ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof. The cottage is two storeys high with an attic and features an altered parallel roofed rear range.
The front has a three-window arrangement, with three-light casements on the ground floor that have a combining hoodmould rising over a cambered-arched stone lintel above the central doorway, which also bears the date inscription. There are two outer two-light casements on the upper floor and a central single-light window, all fitted with iron casements. The cottage has two hipped attic dormers and gable end chimneys with moulded caps, including a paired shaft at the south-west end.
At the north-east end, there is an off-centre projecting bread oven with a stone slate roof. Above, there are two single-light stair windows. The rear wing has 20th-century mullioned windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rake End 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 greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
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