October Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

October Cottage

WRENN ID
over-courtyard-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
October Cottage, Main Street, Gilmorton, LE17 5LS
OS grid reference
SP 571 879
Coordinates
52.48631, -1.15923
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

October Cottage is a cottage dating back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The ground floor is timber-framed and rendered, with red brick under the eaves, and sits on a painted wall-plate. It has a low-pitched slate roof with a brick ridge towards the left. The cottage is two storeys high, with an irregular two-window front featuring 20th-century wooden casement windows in segment-headed surrounds on the ground floor. A panelled door is located at the extreme left. The box frame includes a queen-post roof, exposed at the west end, which demonstrates the extent of the roof’s raising in a later period.

Local climate

October 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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