4, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1955. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
4, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- ghost-alcove-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 4, Main Street, Ayston, LE15 9AE
- OS grid reference
- SK 860 009
- Coordinates
- 52.59948, -0.73061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Main Street is a cottage dating from the mid-17th century. It is built of rubble and ashlar with a thatched roof and has one and a half storeys. The cottage features two eyebrow dormers: one has a small two-light casement above the entrance, while the other, located on the right, has a three-light casement. On the ground floor, there is a three-light casement window with an ashlar lintel and cill. A 19th-century brick entrance porch is present, and to the right, there is a stone mullioned bay window. The cottage has two gable end stacks and one central ashlar stack.
Local climate
4, Main Street 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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