Thatched Cottage and Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. House, post office. 2 related planning applications.
Thatched Cottage and Post Office
- WRENN ID
- turning-cobble-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- House, post office
- Address
- Thatched Cottage and Post Office, Main Street, Burton Overy
- OS grid reference
- SP 677 978
- Coordinates
- 52.57435, -1.00225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century house, originally five cottages, that was altered in the early 19th century. It now functions as a cottage and post office. The building is constructed of whitewashed rendered brick, with a thatched roof and Welsh slate to the ridge, featuring three brick stacks. It comprises three ranges; the range to the left has one and a half storeys, while the ranges to the right are two storeys high. The left range has four two-light casement windows with Y tracery. A plank door is located far to the right. Four eyebrow dormers are set just below the eaves. The central range has a central-opening three-light casement window on both floors. The right range features two two-light casements over a part-glazed door, a three-light horizontal sliding sash window, a three-light casement, and a part-glazed door. Cambered lintels are present over the ground-floor windows in the central and right ranges, with a band running partially on the right range. The right-hand end wall is reportedly constructed of mud in part. Inside, there are chamfered beams.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage and Post Office receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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