Thatched Roofs is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. Cottage. 9 related planning applications.
Thatched Roofs
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-crypt-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
- Thatched Roofs, 45, Main Street, Newtown Linford, LE6 0AE
- OS grid reference
- SK 517 100
- Coordinates
- 52.68579, -1.23567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century, located on the north-east side of Main Street, Newtown Linford. The cottage is constructed from granite and slate rubble stone, with a thatched roof. There is a rebuilt brick ridge stack positioned behind the centre-left door, and a similar stack at the right end. The cottage has one-and-a-half storeys, featuring casement windows with two eyebrow dormers, each containing three lights. On the ground floor, there's a small, multi-paned window bay to the left, a partly glazed front door, and two three-light casement windows. A single-light casement window is located at the left end, and two similar windows are present at the right end. Inside, the cottage retains original beams and an inglenook.
Local climate
Thatched Roofs 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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