46, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
46, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- calm-lintel-primrose
- 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
- 46, Main Street, Houghton on the Hill, LE7 9GD
- OS grid reference
- SK 677 034
- Coordinates
- 52.62418, -1.00068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 46 on Main Street is a cottage dating from the 16th to 17th century. It features a cruck frame, whitewashed rendered brick, a painted rubble stone plinth, and a thatched roof with rendered ridge and end stacks. The building is 1½ storeys high and has two 3-light casement windows and one 3-light horizontal sliding sash window, all equipped with 4-panelled shutters. The central entrance is a 6-panelled door, and there is an open carriageway to the left. Above, there are three 3-light eyebrow dormers and a small gable with a 2-light window over the door. Inside, the cottage contains two pairs of cruck blades (one blade cut) and a partly 17th-century oak staircase with turned balusters, which includes a dog gate with wavy flat balusters.
Local climate
46, Main Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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