Masons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1985. Cottage.
Masons Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-mortar-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Masons Cottage, Main Street, Ashby Parva, LE17 5HY
- OS grid reference
- SP 528 882
- Coordinates
- 52.48977, -1.22284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mason's Cottage is a cottage dated 1813, constructed of red brick with a moulded wooden eaves cornice and a slate roof featuring end stacks. The right stack is coupled with that of Bown's Cottage. The building is two storeys high and has a regular two-window front, which includes three-light late 20th-century wood-framed casements. The ground floor windows are taller and have segmental heads. There is a round-arched doorway with impost blocks and a late 20th-century panelled door. A datestone is positioned high on the left-hand stack, reading "D J Mason 1813."
Local climate
Masons Cottage 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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