Fox Hills Nursery Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fox Hills Nursery Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-parapet-shade
- 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
- Fox Hills Nursery Cottage, Vicary Lane, Woodhouse, LE12 8UN
- OS grid reference
- SK 542 151
- Coordinates
- 52.73104, -1.19751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Hills Nursery Cottage consists of two cottages from the 17th century, with a later extension. The building is made of whitewashed granite and slate rubble stone, featuring brick coped gables and a thatched roof with two ridge stacks. It has one and a half storeys and includes casement windows: three two-light half dormers, one of which has top lights. On the ground floor, there is a two-light casement and a door in the later extension on the left, followed by a three-light casement, a one-light window, another three-light casement, a door with a porch, and a final three-light casement. The left end has a three-light casement with a two-light window above it, while the right end features a two-light casement on both floors. The rear has long outshuts, additional doors, casements, and an eyebrow dormer with one light and another with two lights. Inside, there is an inglenook and stop-chamfered beams with run-out stops. The cottage was formerly known as Woodhouse Fields.
Local climate
Fox Hills Nursery 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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