The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-loggia-moth
- 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
- The Cottage, Hall Lane, Drayton, LE16 8SA
- OS grid reference
- SP 830 921
- Coordinates
- 52.52063, -0.77765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th and 18th century cottage. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a thatched roof, featuring brick ridge and end stacks and stone coped gables. The cottage has one and a half storeys, with three two-light casement windows on the ground floor and a five-panelled door centrally located to the right. There are two two-light eyebrow dormers in the roof. A single two-light casement window is located on the first floor to the left end, and a one-storey extension is on the right end.
Local climate
The Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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