May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
May Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-hinge-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- May Cottage, 12, Rushes Lane, Lubenham, LE16 9TN
- OS grid reference
- SP 705 872
- Coordinates
- 52.47896, -0.96277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Cottage is a cottage that dates from the late 18th century, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of brick featuring scattered burnt headers and has a 20th-century concrete tile roof with a brick ridge stack. There is a disused external gable stack.
The west front of the cottage has three storeys and two bays. The entrance is an off-centre part-glazed six-panel door set in a plain surround with a flat arch. To the left of the door is a single four-light casement window with a moulded wooden cornice. Above this, there is a three-light casement window, and to its right, a two-light casement window. The upper storey, added in the 19th century, mirrors this arrangement with the same style of windows, all of which are 20th-century casements with flat arches.
Local climate
May Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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