Goodacre Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1955. Almshouse. 10 related planning applications.
Goodacre Cottages
- WRENN ID
- inner-pinnacle-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1955
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Goodacre Cottages, 1-8, Main Street, Ashby Parva, LE17 5HY
- OS grid reference
- SP 528 882
- Coordinates
- 52.48956, -1.22269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Goodacre Cottages is a row of eight almshouses built in 1832 for Sarah Bowyer, following a bequest from Lucy Goodacre. The cottages are constructed of red brick and feature a 20th-century concrete tile roof with four square brick ridge stacks. They are two stories high and have eight windows in total. Each cottage on the ground floor has an added lean-to porch, arranged in a pattern of 1:2:1:1:2:1, with a single light window at the front and a glazed door on the side. The central opening includes a segment-headed passage doorway with a plank door, above which is a slate plaque that commemorates the bequest. Each floor has eight 2-light casement windows with segment heads.
Local climate
Goodacre Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- Related listed building consents — 10 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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