The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1989. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-ashlar-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, 30, Markfield Road, Groby
- OS grid reference
- SK 522 076
- Coordinates
- 52.66393, -1.22875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame that has been overbuilt in Mount Sorrel granite and is colourwashed. The roof is made of Swithland slate and features a single red brick ridge stack. The building has a T-plan and is two storeys high with a two-bay front. Each floor has pairs of two-light glazing bar casements with timber lintels. In the rear range, broadly spaced bay posts can be seen, which now rest on a granite plinth and support a wall plate.
Local climate
The Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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