April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. Cottage.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-quoin-pigeon
- 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
- April Cottage, 10, Church Street, Rothley, LE7 7PD
- OS grid reference
- SK 585 126
- Coordinates
- 52.7084, -1.13474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century to the 17th century. It has been refenestrated and reroofed in the mid-20th century. The building features cruck framed whitewashed brick with a granite rubble stone plinth and timber framing, topped with a Welsh slate roof and a brick stack on the left end. The cottage has two storeys, with two 4-light casement windows over a bow window, a central door, and a 3-light window. On the right end, there is a pair of cruck blades, and at the rear, there are six 2-panel sections of timber framing. The cottage has group value with the Church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist.
Local climate
April 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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