The Cottage and Ridgefield is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
The Cottage and Ridgefield
- WRENN ID
- proud-brass-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage and Ridgefield, Main Street, Burton Overy, LE8 9DL
- OS grid reference
- SP 677 979
- Coordinates
- 52.5751, -1.00178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two cottages, originally two or three dwellings, built around 1700. The cottages are constructed of whitewashed brick with Welsh slate and corrugated iron roofs, featuring two brick ridge stacks and a brick left-end stack. A first-floor band is visible in parts, and the eaves are boarded. The upper floor has three three-light casement windows centrally placed, with a similar three-light window to the left and another to the right. To the left is a gabled porch with a glazed door, followed by another gabled porch and door, then a two-light casement and a three-light casement. Internally, there are said to be beams and an inglenook.
Local climate
The Cottage and Ridgefield 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 — 3 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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