Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-rotunda-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, Leicester Lane, Great Bowden, LE16 7HA
- OS grid reference
- SP 737 889
- Coordinates
- 52.49313, -0.91466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is an 18th-century building with a later facade. The ground floor is constructed of coursed ironstone, while the upper portion is red brick with a brick eaves cornice, which has been heightened. A modern pantiled roof is topped with end chimneys. The two-storey front facade has three windows, each with stone lintels and keystones, and early 19th-century casement windows. The central door is similarly detailed, featuring a moulded architrave and a six-panelled door with raised and fielded panels. A two-storey rear cross wing has a roof of both tile and slate, as well as two windows and a door on its front, and a single window on its first floor.
Local climate
Turnpike 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- 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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