The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1992. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-basalt-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Main Street, Cotesbach, LE17 4HX
- OS grid reference
- SP 537 823
- Coordinates
- 52.43672, -1.21015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house, originally built as a pair of cottages, dating from 1828, with later 19th-century alterations. It is constructed of brick and has a hipped roof covered in plain tiles, with two brick ridge stacks. The house has a plinth and a dentilled cornice. The east front has five bays and is asymmetrical. The off-centre doorway has a part-glazed, six-panel door. To the left of the doorway is a glazing-bar sash window, followed by a smaller, late 19th-century glazing-bar sash, and then a larger glazing-bar sash. To the right is a three-light casement window. Above, there are three glazing-bar sashes. All windows have cambered arches. The north wall has the date 1828 formed in tiles. The eastern portion of the front has three bays with, on the ground floor, 8/8 hornless sashes with glazing bars in bays 1 and 2. A 6/6 sash window was inserted between bays 1 and 2, and a three-light casement window is located in bay 3. The first floor has three 4/8 hornless sashes.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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