6, Fowke Street is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. Cottage.
6, Fowke Street
- WRENN ID
- hushed-gargoyle-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 6, Fowke Street, Rothley, LE7 7PJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 584 127
- Coordinates
- 52.7093, -1.1356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 Fowke Street is a 17th-century cottage featuring timber framing and whitewashed render. It has a high rendered plinth and a thatched roof with a central brick ridge and end stacks. The building stands two storeys tall, with three 3-light centre-opening casements on the upper floor and three 6/2 sash windows on the ground floor. To the centre right, there is a wooden doorcase with a bracketed hood and a six-panelled door, accessed by a short flight of stone steps. The cottage displays three bays of timber framing arranged in large rectangular or square panels, with diagonal braces. The timber framing continues on the right end, where there is a 2-light horizontal sliding sash window on the ground floor and a 2-light casement window above.
Local climate
6, Fowke Street receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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