Blacksmiths Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1972. Cottage.
Blacksmiths Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-hinge-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blacksmiths Cottage, Rookery Lane, Groby
- OS grid reference
- SK 524 074
- Coordinates
- 52.66251, -1.22639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blacksmith's Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that was restored around 1980. It features a timber frame with brick noggin and a thatched roof, consisting of a single wall and a gable stack. The cottage is single storey with attics and has two bays of box framing with upper braces. The southeast front includes a plank door with a 20th-century window to the right, followed by a further two-light window. Above, there are two three-light eyebrow dormers. The interior is reputed to have exposed ceiling beams and purlins, along with wind braces in the roof. At the rear, there is a lean-to addition made of rubble stone.
Local climate
Blacksmiths 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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