Cole Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottage.

Cole Cottage

WRENN ID
wild-lantern-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rutland
Constituency
Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Cole Cottage, 3, Love's Lane, Empingham
OS grid reference
SK 952 088
Coordinates
52.66856, -0.59243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cole Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from coursed rubble stone, featuring quoins and a thatched roof with a brick ridge and stone end stacks. The building has one and a half storeys and includes three casement windows: a two-light window, a three-light window, and another three-light window, all with eyebrow dormers above them. The entrance door is located to the center right, and there is a one-light window at the right end of the cottage.

Local climate

Cole Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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