Old Boot Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Cottage.
Old Boot Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-screen-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Boot Cottage, 8, Main Street, Houghton on the Hill
- OS grid reference
- SK 680 036
- Coordinates
- 52.62598, -0.99646
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Boot Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th to 17th century. It features a cruck framed structure made of coursed squared stone, rubble stone, and red brick, with a fragment of timber framing. The roof is plain tile with brick stacks at the ends of the cross wing on the right. The building has 1½ and 2½ storeys. The 1½ storey range on the left includes a carriage archway, a 2-light casement window, and a 6-panelled door set in a 20th-century flat-roofed rubble stone porch. The cross wing on the right has two 1-light windows on the ground floor, a 2-light window above, and a 1-light window in the attic. There are additional casements on the right end and part of a panel of large frame timber framing. Inside, the cottage contains a pair of cruck blades (one cut towards the base), a timber framed cross wall, and chamfered beams.
Local climate
Old Boot Cottage 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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