Cobbler's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1986. Cottage.
Cobbler's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-rotunda-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cobbler's Cottage, 2, Main Street, Preston, LE15 9NJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 871 023
- Coordinates
- 52.61154, -0.71423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cobbler's Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage constructed of rubble with ashlar detailing and a slate roof. The building has two storeys, with a smaller 19th-century extension on the left side. On the first floor, there are two wooden casement windows, each with two lights. The ground floor features a three-light wooden casement window on the left and a two-light casement window on the right, both of which have timber lintels. The right-hand gable has ashlar coping, and there are two ashlar stacks at the gable ends. The entrance is located on the right side. This building is included for its group value only.
Local climate
Cobbler's 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- No related consent applications matched
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