Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-stair-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatch Cottage, Mill Lane, Gilmorton, LE17 5PB
- OS grid reference
- SP 573 878
- Coordinates
- 52.48589, -1.15711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Gilmorton Mill Lane. It is constructed of plastered cob and features a straw thatched roof with an end stack on the left and a single eyebrow dormer on the right. The cottage has one-and-a-half storeys and a two-window front, with 20th-century wooden casements set in surrounds that have painted fictive flat-arched lintels and raised keyblocks above. There is a 20th-century extension to the right that contains a door.
Local climate
Thatch Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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