Holly Cottage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1954. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Holly Cottage Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stranded-passage-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1954
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Holly Cottage Farmhouse, Little Lane, Greetham, LE15 7NQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 927 145
- Coordinates
- 52.72053, -0.62795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage Farmhouse is a 17th-century cottage located on the north side of Little Lane in Greetham. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone and ashlar, topped with a thatch roof and featuring brick end stacks, with the gable facing forward. It has one and a half storeys.
On the left side, there is a gable that contains a three-light stone mullion window on both floors, complete with hood moulds. To the right, there is a one-light casement window and a two-light horizontal sliding sash window, with a two-light eyebrow dormer situated above. The right end facing the lane has a blocked window with a two-light stone mullion above it. The entrance is located on the right side, leading into two one-storey extensions that have Welsh slate roofs and an eyebrow dormer above. Inside, the cottage features ceiling beams.
Local climate
Holly Cottage Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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