26, Upper Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1977. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
26, Upper Church Street
- WRENN ID
- blind-sentry-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 26, Upper Church Street, Syston, LE7 1HR
- OS grid reference
- SK 626 118
- Coordinates
- 52.70075, -1.07376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century cottage located on Upper Church Street in Syston. The building is constructed of brick with a roof of Swithland slate. It has a three-unit plan, with one bay to the left of the doorway containing a three-light horizontally sliding sash window. To the right of the doorway are two further horizontally sliding sashes, each with two lights. All ground floor window openings have wide, splayed, flat arched heads that are painted. Four upper windows, each with two lights and horizontally sliding sashes, are present. A stack is located on the left-hand gable.
Local climate
26, Upper Church Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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