The Cottages and Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1975. House, cottages. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottages and Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- drifting-gargoyle-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1975
- Type
- House, cottages
- Address
- The Cottages and Garden Wall, Main Street, Mowsley, LE17 6NT
- OS grid reference
- SP 646 889
- Coordinates
- 52.49498, -1.04873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottages and garden wall comprise a house and a row of four cottages (originally five), dating from the mid-18th century, with the remainder likely built in the late 18th or early 19th century. The buildings are constructed of brick with Welsh slate roofs, although one roof has been replaced with modern tiles. The southernmost house is the tallest in the row, featuring a doorway to the left of its facade and two three-light casement windows with transoms and lower opening lights, set within flush frames and beneath cambered brick heads. A further bay to the left is incorporated alongside the adjacent cottage, creating a three-bay arrangement where the doorway is flanked by three-light casements. These ground-floor casements have very deep cambered brick heads with keystones. A moulded brick sill band runs across the facade of the southernmost house. The remaining cottages are lower in height and vary in plan, with single or two units per cottage, also featuring cambered brick heads over doorways and two-light casement windows, some of which have been renewed. One original door remains in a moulded wooden architrave. Gable end stacks are present. A brick garden wall is attached to the southernmost property, extending to a mud wall running east-west, with slate copings and a cobble plinth.
Local climate
The Cottages and Garden Wall receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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