79, New Road is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1966. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
79, New Road
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-step-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rother Valley MP: Jake Richards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 79, New Road, Firbeck
- OS grid reference
- SK 560 882
- Coordinates
- 53.38845, -1.15943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This cottage, located at 79 New Road, was built in 1876 for the St. Leger estate of Park Hill. It features snecked dressed limestone and a 20th-century tile roof, designed in the Cottage Orne style with a T-shaped plan. The building is single storey with an attic.
The entrance front has three bays, with a central gabled porch supported by rustic wooden posts. The porch includes a scalloped bargeboard with a pendant boss. To the right of the porch are two single-light windows, while to the left is a three-light corner window. The hipped roof has side-facing dormers set under the main ridge, each adorned with bargeboards supported by shaped brackets. A central ridge stack features an ashlar band and coping linked by strips.
On the left return, corner windows flank a recess that holds a date plaque with the St. Leger initials. The dormer here has a three-light window beneath shaped and pierced bargeboards topped with an apex finial. There is also a lower rear wing on the left, which has a hipped roof, a gablet, and a ridge stack. The style of this cottage matches that of No. 64 situated opposite.
Local climate
79, New Road receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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