8, Lower Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1984. A C19 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
8, Lower Church Street
- WRENN ID
- seventh-steel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 8, Lower Church Street, Syston, LE7 1GX
- OS grid reference
- SK 625 118
- Coordinates
- 52.70061, -1.07551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Lower Church Street is an early 19th-century cottage located in Syston. The building is constructed of brick and features a new roof covering. It stands two storeys high and has a three-unit plan, with one bay to the right of the doorway. The doorway is framed in plain wood, and to its left are two windows: the inner window is a 2-light horizontally sliding sash, while the outer window has been renewed. All lower windows have cambered brick heads. On the upper floor, there are three windows; the central window has been renewed, while the others are 3-light and 2-light horizontally sliding sashes. The cottage also has a nogged eaves cornice and is equipped with one axial stack and two gable end stacks.
Local climate
8, Lower 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- 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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