123 and 125, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
123 and 125, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- nether-pillar-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 123 and 125, Main Street, Swithland
- OS grid reference
- SK 548 131
- Coordinates
- 52.71347, -1.18972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 123 and 125 on Main Street is a cottage built in 1850, now divided into two separate homes. The structure is made of slate rubble stone with a plinth, featuring buff brick dressings and an eaves cornice. It has a Swithland slate roof, which includes a similar brick central ridge and projecting stacks at both ends. The cottage stands two stories tall and has three 2-light leaded casement windows along with a central door. A stone on the building is dated 1850 and features an "L" and an Earl's coronet. To the left, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension that includes a door and casements, along with two 2-light casements in the gable. The right end has similar slight extensions with two 3-light casements and two 2-light casements in the gable.
Local climate
123 and 125, 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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