The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-moat-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Main Street, Keyham, LE7 9JQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 669 065
- Coordinates
- 52.65251, -1.01129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from around 1700. It is constructed of red brick with a rubble stone plinth and features a thatched roof with two brick ridge stacks. The building has a brick band and moulded brick eaves. It stands two storeys high and has three 3-light horizontal sliding sash windows with painted mullions, along with a small 1-light casement window located to the centre left. On the ground floor, there is a 3-light casement window, a part-glazed door with a thatch canopy, and two wide 2-light windows. The left end of the house includes a 1½ storey extension with 3-light and 2-light casements. On the right end, there is a wide 2-light window on the first floor with a cambered lintel. There are also extensions to the rear.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 12 transactions since 1997
- 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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