The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. A Restoration House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-span-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Restoration
- Address
- The Cottage, Church Lane, East Norton
- OS grid reference
- SK 783 003
- Coordinates
- 52.59542, -0.84461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house that was formerly two cottages, largely dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features a front divided into three sections, with a projecting bay on the left side and a lean-to brick porch at the angle. There is one renewed two-light casement window on each floor in the central bay, with the lower window featuring a surviving hoodmould. The right-hand bay is taller and has a blocked doorway that has been converted into a window, complete with a hoodmould and keystone, and a new casement window above it, which also has an original hoodmould.
The gable wall retains ovolo moulded architraves around the renewed casement windows, and a date stone in the apex likely indicates that the house was re-roofed around 1848. On the rear elevation, there are three windows to the left of the doorway, with only the middle window retaining its original ovolo moulded architrave and mullion. The door features a rough timber lintel, and there is a two-light ovolo moulded mullioned window in the right-hand bay. The upper windows are all ovolo moulded mullioned lights, except for the left-hand window, which has been renewed. The building has gable and axial stacks.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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