68 and 70, Main Street 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.
68 and 70, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- dusted-arch-rush
- 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
- 68 and 70, Main Street, Newtown Linford, LE6 0AD
- OS grid reference
- SK 517 100
- Coordinates
- 52.686, -1.23659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 68 and 70 on Main Street are two cottages from the 18th century. They are constructed from painted granite and slate rubble stone, featuring a Swithland slate front, a plain tile roof at the rear, and a left end projecting stack with a ridge stack at the rear right end. The left rear angle has buttresses. The cottages are two storeys high and have casement windows; No. 68 on the left has a 3-light window, a door, and a 1-light window, with a 4-light window above. No. 70 on the right has a 3-light window and a door, with a 3-light and a 2-light casement window above. There is also a one-storey extension at the rear.
Local climate
68 and 70, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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