137, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
137, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- proud-moulding-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 137, Main Street, Swithland, LE12 8TQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 550 131
- Coordinates
- 52.71302, -1.1871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from 1718, located on Main Street, Swithland. It is constructed from slate and granite rubble stone, with a Swithland slate roof and red brick end stacks. The upper part of the cottage has been rebuilt. The front elevation features two 2-light windows with horizontal sliding sashes, and brick cambered lintels below. There are two hipped dormers above. A 2-light casement window with top lights is on the left end, and a door is on the right end. The gable ends show the single purlin roof structure. There is a 2-light window with a horizontal sliding sash, and a 20th-century 1-storey extension to the rear. A small slate tablet inscribed "JPE 1718" is displayed on the front of the cottage.
Local climate
137, Main Street 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 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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