Waterfall House and Wall Bordering Medbourne Brook is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Cottage.
Waterfall House and Wall Bordering Medbourne Brook
- WRENN ID
- unlit-steeple-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Waterfall House and Wall Bordering Medbourne Brook, Waterfall Way
- OS grid reference
- SP 798 929
- Coordinates
- 52.52847, -0.82393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waterfall House is a cottage dating from the 17th century, which was raised by half a storey and dated 1883. The adjoining wall was built around 1800. The cottage is constructed of coursed rubble stone with quoins, featuring a red brick upper floor at the rear, and has a Welsh slate roof with brick ridge and end stacks. The left gable is stone-coped, and the gable faces to the right.
The building has two storeys, with three 2-light casement windows with top lights and brick cambered lintels on the upper floor. The ground floor has three 3-light casement windows with wooden lintels. On the left-facing gable, there is a door, a small 20th-century bow window, and a single-light window above it. Extending from the right end of the cottage is a garden wall, which has an outhouse behind it, featuring a 3-light casement window, a loop hole, and a door.
Inside, there are stop-chamfered beams and principal rafters, likely from the original cottage. A tablet inscribed 'T.P. 1883' is located in the facing gable. The wall itself is made of coursed rubble stone with a red brick upper section and is approximately 1.5 to 2 meters high, topped with concrete coping. It extends from the end of the garden wall along the bank of Medbourne Brook to Manor Farmhouse, bordering the gardens of Waterfall House, Bentley's Yard, and Saddler's Cottage, which are also located on Waterfall Way.
Local climate
Waterfall House and Wall Bordering Medbourne Brook sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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