4 and 6, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Blaby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1976. Cottage.
4 and 6, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- fossil-step-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 4 and 6, Main Street, Countesthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SP 585 954
- Coordinates
- 52.5538, -1.1374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 4 and 6 on Main Street are a pair of cottages built in the early 19th century. They are constructed of brick and feature a hipped Welsh slate roof. Each cottage is two storeys high and has a single unit plan with an outer doorway that is topped by a round arched fan. No. 4 includes a canted shop window with thin astragals, while No. 6 has a two-light horizontally sliding sash window. Both cottages have two-light windows on the upper floor and share a central stack.
Local climate
4 and 6, Main Street receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% 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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- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2005
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