Vergers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.
Vergers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-tracery-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vergers Cottage, 10 and 12, Church Walk, Lubenham, LE16 9TA
- OS grid reference
- SP 705 870
- Coordinates
- 52.4771, -0.96257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vergers Cottage is a house dated 1737, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of brick and features a slate roof with a coped west gable, along with two gable stacks and a ridge stack. The south front has two storeys and three bays, with an off-centre doorway that has a cambered arch and a four-panel door. To the left of the doorway is a three-light casement window, and to the right is a two-light casement window. Above these, there are three two-light casements, all of which are 20th-century casements with cambered arches. The west gable end wall displays the initials IW and the date 1737 in burnt headers. The north elevation features a single-storey stone porch, likely from the 19th century. An early listing notes that the interior includes a bressumer supported on an early 17th-century bracket with strapwork carving, as well as a staircase with turned balusters and a moulded newel and handrail.
Local climate
Vergers Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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