Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
Church Cottages
- WRENN ID
- last-bailey-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottages, 3 and 5, Church Hill, Belvoir, NG32 1RN
- OS grid reference
- SK 824 311
- Coordinates
- 52.87152, -0.77696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottages, located on Church Hill in Knipton, are two dwellings dating from around 1750. The building is constructed of coursed ironstone with limestone quoins and dressings, featuring a lobby-entrance plan and a roof covered with black glazed pantiles. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a west side that consists of four bays.
On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century half-glazed door positioned to the right of the center, flanked by one 20th-century casement window on each side. The first floor has three 20th-century casements above the door and ground floor windows, with an additional casement to the left of the elevation. The roof is half-hipped and has a large stack positioned over the door, made of ironstone and limestone with a brick rectangular flue. To the left, there is a second 20th-century stack.
The north gable wall features vertical quoins and retains one casement on each floor, along with a 20th-century casement in the attic. The rear (east) side is illuminated by three casements on each floor, although the center one has been removed to accommodate a single-storey gabled 20th-century extension.
Local climate
Church Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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