Lock keeper's cottage with adjoining former stable block and cottage adjacent to Foxton Bottom Lock, Grand Union Canal Leicester Line is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. A 19th century Cottage.
Lock keeper's cottage with adjoining former stable block and cottage adjacent to Foxton Bottom Lock, Grand Union Canal Leicester Line
- WRENN ID
- half-column-dale
- 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
- Cottage
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Lock keeper's cottage with adjoining former stable block and cottage adjacent to Foxton Bottom Lock, Grand Union Canal Leicester Line, LE16 7RA
- OS grid reference
- SP 691 897
- Coordinates
- 52.50115, -0.98286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lock-keeper's cottage, along with an adjoining former stable block and cottage, is located next to Foxton Bottom Lock on the Grand Union Canal Leicester Line. The cottage is constructed of brick, now rendered, and features a hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and end stacks.
The east front of the cottage is two storeys high and has three bays. It includes a central doorway with a cambered arch and a 20th-century panel door. On either side of the doorway are single 20th-century three-light casements, also with cambered arches. Above the doorway is a smaller central window, flanked by two more single 20th-century three-light casements with cambered arches. To the north, there is a brick outshot.
The former stable block and cottage range are connected to the lock-keeper's cottage by a small, walled yard. This structure is also brick and rendered, with a pitched slate roof and a single ridge stack over the cottage. It is a single-storey building. The stable features a doorway with a plank door, flanked by single square windows. To the right, the former cottage has a doorway with a cambered arch and a plank door, with two cambered arch windows with 20th-century two-light frames to the right. The Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal was engineered by Benjamin Bevan between 1810 and 1814.
Local climate
Lock keeper's cottage with adjoining former stable block and cottage adjacent to Foxton Bottom Lock, Grand Union Canal Leicester Line 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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