Pit Close Cottage 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.
Pit Close Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-ashlar-sienna
- 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
- Pit Close Cottage, 124, Main Street, Swithland, LE12 8TJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 549 131
- Coordinates
- 52.7129, -1.18868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pit Close Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the south side of Swithland Main Street. The building is constructed of whitewashed plastered rubble stone with a thatched roof, featuring red brick ridge and end stacks. It is a long, low range with 1½ storeys, displaying casement windows. There are two eyebrow dormers with two lights each, alongside a door and a thatched gabled porch. Below are two windows with three lights. A single-storey thatched extension is attached to the left end, with a three-light window. To the right end is an upper two-light window. The main roof has four eyebrow dormers, while a thatched outshut is positioned at the rear. A 19th-century pump with a handle is situated to the right of the front door.
Local climate
Pit Close Cottage 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 — 1 transaction since 2010
- 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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