Kennels Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. A C18 Cottage.
Kennels Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-joist-mallow
- 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
- Kennels Cottage, Woodhouse
- OS grid reference
- SK 531 159
- Coordinates
- 52.73845, -1.21432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kennels Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that was modified in the early 19th century. It was formerly two or three cottages and is constructed of granite and slate rubble stone with brick dressings and a plain tile roof. The roof features two likely earlier 19th-century brick ridge stacks in an Elizabethan style, along with an additional stack on the right extension.
The main range has gabled cross wings at either end and a lower gabled extension to the right. The cottage is 1½ storeys tall and has casement windows, predominantly with three lights and mostly center opening. A central door leads to a cross passage, with a one-light casement window to the left and a two-light casement window with a cambered lintel to the right. There is a horizontal beam at the first-floor level further to the right, and two two-light dormers above.
In the left cross wing, there is a door with a two-light casement window above it. The right wing features a similar arrangement, with a gable made of brick. The left end has a three-light casement window. The rear of the cottage, which faces a field and may have been the original front, has a central door with a porch and three-light casement windows on either side, along with two two-light dormers above. The left three-light window has a hood mould made of both brick and wood. The left cross wing contains a three-light casement window on both floors, each with a brick hood mould. In the right cross wing, there is a one-light casement window and a three-light casement window with a cambered lintel above. Inside, there are chamfered beams, a tie beam in the left cross wing, and low wide doors.
Local climate
Kennels 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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