258, Forest Road is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
258, Forest Road
- WRENN ID
- seventh-plinth-pine
- 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
- 258, Forest Road, Woodhouse, LE12 8UA
- OS grid reference
- SK 540 154
- Coordinates
- 52.73391, -1.201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 258 on Forest Road is a cottage from the 18th century. It has a rendered exterior with shouldered coped gables and a thatched roof featuring end stacks. The building is 1½ storeys high and has a 3-light casement window on either side of a thatched porch and door. Above the porch, there is a 2-light eyebrow dormer. Additionally, there are two 2-light casements at both ends of the cottage and outshuts at the rear.
Local climate
258, 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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- 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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