White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-brick-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Cottage, 63, Main Street, Smeeton Westerby, LE8 0QJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 679 927
- Coordinates
- 52.52843, -1.00045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a late 18th-century brick house located on the west side of Main Street in Smeeton Westerby. The house has a Swithland slate roof and a ridge stack. The lower course of bricks is tarred, although the walls are now rendered. The east front of the house is two storeys high and three bays wide, with a gabled bay on the left. An off-centre doorway is topped with a flat hood supported by brackets, and has a partly glazed four-panel door. To the left of the door is a three-light sliding sash window with a flat arch. To the right is a similarly styled window. Above these, the left bay contains a small two-light sliding sash window, and the right bay has a three-light sliding sash window with a cambered arch.
Local climate
White Cottage 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 — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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