Gwash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Gwash Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-moulding-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gwash Cottage, 13, Main Street, Great Casterton, PE9 4AP
- OS grid reference
- TF 000 089
- Coordinates
- 52.66938, -0.52183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gwash Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on Main Street in Great Casterton. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features a roof made of Collyweston stone slate, with a brick stack at the end. The house has a gable end facing the street and is two stories high with a two-window range on the south front. The central door is set in a canted 20th-century porch that also has a Collyweston stone slate roof. Below timber lintels, there are three-light casement windows. The building has been extended to the west and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Gwash 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 80% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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