274, Forest Road is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
274, Forest Road
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-dormer-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 274, Forest Road, Woodhouse, LE12 8UA
- OS grid reference
- SK 541 155
- Coordinates
- 52.73476, -1.19994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 274 on Forest Road is a cottage built in 1910, with some parts possibly dating back earlier. The structure is made of slate and granite rubble stone, topped with a hipped thatched roof and a projecting stone stack on the right end. It has one and a half storeys featuring renewed casement windows: one window, three windows, a door, and a two-light window with two lunette dormers above. The left end of the cottage has two two-light windows set in a segmental recess, with pigeon holes above them. There is also a two-light window on the right end. At the rear, the cottage includes two doors, two casements, and a bay window. The attic is dated 1910.
Local climate
274, Forest Road 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 77% 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 62% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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