144, 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.
144, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- kindled-cobalt-nettle
- 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
- 144, Main Street, Swithland, LE12 8TJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 550 130
- Coordinates
- 52.7127, -1.18651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 144 on Main Street is a cottage dating from around 1840. It is constructed from slate and granite rubble stone, featuring red brick dressings and a thatched roof with red brick end stacks. The building has one and a half stories and includes two 2-light diamond-paned casement windows. There are two dormers located just below the eaves, and the windows have cambered lintels with Tudor hood moulds on the ground floor. The central door has three pointed arch panels and is topped by a thatched gabled hood. There is a 20th-century extension that has slate-hung walls, a Swithland slate roof, and a 2-light window on the end.
Local climate
144, 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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