140, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1979. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
140, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- pale-gravel-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 140, Main Street, Swithland, LE12 8TJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 550 131
- Coordinates
- 52.71278, -1.18693
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This cottage, originally a pair of dwellings dating from around 1840, is situated on the south side of Main Street in Swithland. The building is constructed of slate and granite rubble stone with a plinth, grey buff brick dressings, and an eaves cornice. It has a Swithland slate roof with two central ridge stacks made of grey brick. The windows are 2-light diamond-paned casements with hood moulds on the ground floor. The ground floor features doors on either side of the windows, each with three pointed arch panels and a cambered lintel. Painted barge boards are present on the gable ends. A rear extension and outshut have been added.
Local climate
140, 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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