The Old Ford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Cottage.
The Old Ford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-vestry-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Ford Cottage, Waterfall Way, Medbourne
- OS grid reference
- SP 798 929
- Coordinates
- 52.52847, -0.82418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Ford Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was raised in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with quoins, and the first floor is partly rendered brick. The roof is made of Welsh slate, featuring a brick ridge and end stacks. The left half of the front cants back to follow the angle of the lane. The cottage has two storeys, with two 3-light casements and one 2-light casement on the upper floor. Below, there are two 2-light casements, a 20th-century gabled porch with a door, and a combination of a 3-light and a 2-light window. On the right end, there is a French window, with two 2-light windows above it and a blocked 1-light window in the gable. Most of the windows have wooden lintels. Inside, the cottage features chamfered beams and an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
The Old Ford Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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