Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Lodge.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-pewter-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Holly Cottage, Main Street, Wymondham
- OS grid reference
- SK 859 175
- Coordinates
- 52.74898, -0.72829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is a lodge that has been converted into a house, built in 1868 and designed by R. W. Johnson. The structure is made of coursed and squared ironstone with limestone ashlar dressings and features Swithland slate roofs. It has a chamfered plinth, quoins, bracketed eaves, and pierced bargeboards with finials. The building includes a single lateral stack, paired ridge stacks, and a single gable stone stack. It is two storeys high and has three bays, arranged in a T-plan.
The west front features a central gabled wooden porch with arch braces and a moulded pointed doorcase that holds a part-glazed door. To the left, there is a projecting gabled wing with a canted hipped bay window containing three plain casements. To the right, there is a single-storey bay with a square gabled bay window that has a foiled triple lancet in a pointed arched reveal. Above the door, there is a gabled cross eaves dormer with a cusped single lancet, and to the left of this dormer, there is a gable with a cusped double lancet casement in a segmental pointed reveal.
On the north side, facing the street, there is a double lancet to the right. The rear of the building has a gabled wing with a shouldered doorway and a mullioned casement, along with a double lancet above it. To the left, there is a lean-to addition featuring a 20th-century casement, and above this, there is a cross eaves gabled dormer with a single lancet. This building was originally constructed as a lodge for the north entrance to Edmondthorpe Hall.
Local climate
Holly Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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