Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Cottage.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-finial-bistre
- 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
- Lilac Cottage, Main Street, Hungarton
- OS grid reference
- SK 690 073
- Coordinates
- 52.65948, -0.98098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is a cottage dated 1712 and 1722, located in Hungarton. It is constructed of whitewashed brick with a black painted rendered plinth and features a Welsh slate roof with a brick central ridge and side stacks. The facade faces right and includes a cross wing at the left end by the roadway. The building has two storeys with three windows: a two-light horizontal sliding sash in the cross wing, a three-light casement, and another two-light horizontal sliding sash. On the ground floor, there is a three-light horizontal sliding sash, a lean-to at the angle with the front door, a one-light casement, and a similar two-light window. The left end features a six-pane window and a two-light casement above. The cross wing has cambered lintels, and in its gable, there is a stone tablet inscribed with "1722" and the initials "T over W." A similar tablet is located on the first floor of the main range, inscribed "TWS over 1712."
Local climate
Lilac 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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