Stocks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1954. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Stocks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-balcony-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1954
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Stocks Cottage, 11, Main Street, Market Overton, LE15 7PL
- OS grid reference
- SK 887 163
- Coordinates
- 52.73768, -0.68708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stocks Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, originally comprising three dwellings. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a thatched roof, featuring a stone ridge stack and two brick ridge stacks. It has a 1½-storey profile with three eyebrow dormers: two 2-light and one 3-light. The windows, reading from left to right, include a 2-light horizontal sliding sash, a 3-light stone mullion window with a single light, a doorway with a thatched canopy, two 2-light casement windows, a 2-light horizontal sliding sash, and another 2-light casement.
Local climate
Stocks Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- 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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