264, Forest Road is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. A C19 Cottage.
264, Forest Road
- WRENN ID
- third-span-rye
- 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
- 264, Forest Road, Woodhouse
- OS grid reference
- SK 540 154
- Coordinates
- 52.73411, -1.20069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 264 on Forest Road is a cottage built around 1850. It features a slate rubble stone construction and a roof made of Swithland slate, with ornamental buff brick stacks in an Elizabethan style located at the right end and rear. The cottage is 1½ storeys high and has a gable facing the road. It includes leaded light casements with rubble stone cambered lintels. The entrance is on the right side, leading to a gabled porch that has two-light windows on either side, along with two 2-light dormers above. The left end facing the road has a 2-light window, a 3-light window, a 2-light dormer, and another 2-light window in the gable. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension on the right end.
Local climate
264, 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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