Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.

Keeper's Cottage

WRENN ID
carved-lantern-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Charnwood
Constituency
Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Keeper's Cottage, 103, Town Green Street, Rothley, LE7 7NW
OS grid reference
SK 580 122
Coordinates
52.70506, -1.14249
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 16th century and was altered around 1800. It is constructed of whitewashed brick, with part of a cruck frame, and features a painted granite rubble stone plinth. The roof is made of Welsh slate, with a whitewashed rendered central ridge and stacks at the right end. The building has two storeys, with two sets of 2-light horizontal sliding sashes above, and on the ground floor, there is a door, a 2-light casement, another door, and a 3-light centre-opening casement. The ground floor windows have cambered lintels. On the right end of the cottage, part of a cruck blade is visible.

Local climate

Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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