36 and 38, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Cottages. 5 related planning applications.
36 and 38, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- silver-belfry-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- 36 and 38, Main Street, Swithland, LE12 8TH
- OS grid reference
- SK 542 131
- Coordinates
- 52.71347, -1.19912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This property comprises two dwellings, incorporating a former Methodist chapel dating from 1856. The building is located on the south side of Main Street in Swithland. It is a long range of gabled buildings with a rear wing. The construction is primarily granite and slate rubble stone, partially rendered, with slate roofs on the chapel, the rear wing, and outshuts on the right side, while the remaining roof is thatched. Brick ridge and end stacks are present.
The chapel section has a central door with an overlight and mullion and transom windows on either side. Buff brick dressings feature, along with cambered lintels. A stone dated 1856 is positioned above the door. The rear range, which is 1½ storeys high, has three two-light casement windows on its left side, three doors, and two three-light casements below. A small, 20th-century stair turret projects forward from the left wing. To the right side of the chapel there are three renewed eyebrow dormers, two outshuts, a door, and a two-light window on the ground floor. A two-light window is present on both floors on the right side of the chapel.
Inside, there are chamfered beams and an inglenook fireplace with a hood.
Local climate
36 and 38, 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 2015
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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