Russet Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Russet Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fading-grate-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Russet Cottage, the Nook, Bitteswell with Bittesby
- OS grid reference
- SP 537 858
- Coordinates
- 52.4683, -1.20992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Russet Cottage is a pair of cottages that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The front is made of red brick and features a thatched roof, with chimney stacks at both ends and a ridge stack located to the right of the center. The building has two storeys, with four windows on the first floor and five windows on the ground floor; the second window from the left on the ground floor has replaced a door. The windows are casements, with those on the first floor being shallower than those below, and the ground floor windows have segment heads. There is a ribbed door with a thatched beehive hood situated between the fourth and fifth windows from the left.
Local climate
Russet 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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