40, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottage.
40, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- brooding-thatch-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 40, Main Street, Empingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 953 087
- Coordinates
- 52.66852, -0.59126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 on Main Street is a cottage dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone and features a thatched roof with stone and brick end stacks. The building has one and a half storeys, with part-light casements and eyebrow dormers above. The central entrance is a part-glazed door with wooden lintels. To the right, there is a 19th-century single-storey brick extension that has a plain tile roof, hipped to the right, a brick ridge stack, and a two-light casement window.
Local climate
40, 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 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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