The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-brass-pigeon
- 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
- The Cottage, Barley Leas, Hungarton, LE7 9JH
- OS grid reference
- SK 689 072
- Coordinates
- 52.65834, -0.98194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 1769 cottage located in Barley Leas. It is constructed of red and buff brick in a chequer pattern, with a Swithland slate hipped roof and brick end stacks. The eaves are brick dentilled. The front facade faces to the right and features two storeys with two 2-light casement windows on each floor, which have been renewed. A central doorway has a cambered lintel and a plank door. The original cambered lintels remain above the ground floor windows. A glazed door is located in the facing end. There is a one-storey extension on the right end. A tablet dated 1769 is placed above the central doorway. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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