Malthouse Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1966. House.
Malthouse Cottages
- WRENN ID
- waiting-stone-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth MP: Dr Luke Evans (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Malthouse Cottages, 40-42, Newbold Road, Desford
- OS grid reference
- SK 475 036
- Coordinates
- 52.62838, -1.29914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Malthouse Cottages is a former row of three cottages, now a single house, dating from the 15th century and altered in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Originally built with timber framing featuring jowled posts and box framing, much of the structure is now underbuilt in brick laid in Flemish bond with burnt headers. The roof is plain tiled and has large external gable stacks at each end with stone bases and facetted diamond-set brick stacks, along with a single ridge stack.
The building has a two-storey, irregular seven-bay front with central and end gables made of 20th-century brickwork, while still retaining some box framing. The central entrance features a planked door sheltered by a 20th-century gabled open timber porch. To the left of the door are two pairs of two-light windows and a single three-light window, while to the right are single two-light, three-light, and four-light windows. On the first floor, there are four two-light windows along with single three-light and four-light windows. All the windows are 20th-century leaded casements.
Local climate
Malthouse Cottages 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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