Darke's Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Darke's Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
dim-cellar-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tewkesbury
Constituency
Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Darke's Farm Cottage, Noverton Lane, Southam, GL52 5DD
OS grid reference
SO 979 236
Coordinates
51.91123, -2.0317
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Darke's Farm Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 17th century. It has a rectangular shape with timber framing and painted brick infill, which has been partly rebuilt and encased in random limestone. The right gable end is partially covered with weatherboarding. The cottage features a thatched roof with a rendered brick chimney stack. There are 20th-century painted brick extensions at the rear, which are not of special interest. The main body of the cottage is 1½ storeys tall and has four 2-light casement windows without glazing bars on the ground floor facing the garden. There is a single 2-light eyebrow dormer located off-centre to the left, and two similar 2-light casements are positioned high up in the right gable end. An axial stack is present, and access to the cottage is now through a 20th-century plank door leading into a 20th-century porch. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Darke's Farm 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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