Marion's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Museum/shop. 2 related planning applications.
Marion's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-pilaster-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Museum/shop
- Address
- Marion's Cottage, 501, Newtown Linford
- OS grid reference
- SK 523 097
- Coordinates
- 52.6826, -1.22759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marion's Cottage is a museum and shop that was originally a cottage, dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of granite and slate rubble stone, featuring Swithland slate roofs and partly rebuilt brick end stacks. The building has one and a half storeys and includes two doors, with a two-light casement window on both the left and right sides. There are outshuts with doors at either end, with a two-light casement above the left end and one and two-light casements above the right end. An outshut is located at the rear. Inside, there are chamfered ceiling beams, an inglenook fireplace with a hood, and a single purlin roof supported by a cross wall.
Local climate
Marion's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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