Rockyfield Cottage 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.
Rockyfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-quartz-sorrel
- 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
- Rockyfield Cottage, Priory Lane, Ulverscroft, LE67 9PH
- OS grid reference
- SK 494 118
- Coordinates
- 52.70187, -1.26976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rockyfield Cottage is a cottage built in 1908 by Ernest Gimson for Margaret Gimson. It is constructed from granite and slate rubble stone, topped with a Swithland slate roof and features lintels with left end and rear side stacks. The cottage is 1½ storeys tall and has a slightly curving plan. The front includes casement windows, with a door located to the center right, a 1-light casement to the right, and a 2-light window in the gable above. To the left, there are two 2-light windows and another 2-light window in the gable. On the extreme left, there is a stable-type door flanked by a 1-light window on either side. To the right of the front door, there is a 3-light window with a 2-light dormer above it, and on the right end, there is a 3-light window on both floors. The cottage also features a massive stack, two 2-light dormers, additional casements, and a door at the rear. Inside, much of the original woodwork remains intact.
Local climate
Rockyfield 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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