Pest Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. Cottage.
Pest Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-porch-vale
- 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
- Pest Cottage, 26 and 28, School Lane, Woodhouse
- OS grid reference
- SK 537 149
- Coordinates
- 52.72967, -1.20574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pest Cottage is a pair of cottages, likely originally built as one, dating from the 16th or 17th century. The structure features timber framing with whitewashed brick nogging and a thatched roof that has a central ridge and stacks at the left end. It is 1½ storeys high and includes two 3-light eyebrow dormers.
On the ground floor, from the left, there is a 2-light casement window, a thatched porch with a door, another 2-light casement, a 3-light sliding sash window, a second thatched porch with a door, and a final 3-light sliding sash window. To the left, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension with Swithland slate and a garage that also has a thatched roof. On the right end, there is a thatched outshut with a stone stack and a 2-light casement window. Pest Cottage was the home of Thomas Rawlins, a refugee from the Great Plague, and the founder of Rawlins School.
Local climate
Pest 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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