Corner Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Corner Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-steel-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Corner Cottage, King's Norton, LE7 9BF
- OS grid reference
- SK 688 005
- Coordinates
- 52.59827, -0.98484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corner Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1800, with a raised half-storey added in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick with a Welsh slate roof, featuring brick ridges and stacks on the left end. The cottage has two storeys, with two two-light casement windows on each floor. A plank door is located on the left side. The ground floor windows have a cambered lintel, as do the two-light casement windows on both floors located on the right end.
Local climate
Corner 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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