72, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
72, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- brooding-chalk-ochre
- 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
- 72, Main Street, Newtown Linford, LE6 0AD
- OS grid reference
- SK 516 101
- Coordinates
- 52.68616, -1.23686
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 72 on Main Street is a cottage dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with an 18th-century wing on the left. The building has an H-shaped plan. The left gable is made of granite and slate rubble stone, while the center and right gables feature square panelled timber framing with brick nogging, including one panel with a herringbone pattern. The gable on the right has three panels and a stone plinth. The roof is covered with Swithland slate and has rebuilt end and central ridge stacks.
The cottage has two storeys with a variety of casement windows: three 3-light casements and one 1-light casement on the first floor, and two 3-light casements and one 1-light casement on the ground floor, along with a door that has a Swithland slate canopy above it, and a 3-light casement below. The windows in the left gable feature stone cambered lintels. There is an outshut with a door on the left end and a dormer on the right end. The rear of the building has stone walling with timber framing and brick nogging on the left gable. The right projecting wing has an end stack, casements with cambered lintels, and two French windows.
Local climate
72, 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 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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