Lawn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Lawn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-quartz-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lawn Cottage, Main Street, Gaddesby, LE7 4WG
- OS grid reference
- SK 688 131
- Coordinates
- 52.71124, -0.98295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lawn Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage with additions made in the mid-19th century and mid-20th century. It is constructed of brick and has a roof of Swithland slate, with coped gables and cogged eaves. There are two gable stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and has three bays. The front elevation features a central, two-storey gabled Gothic porch with a chamfered pointed doorway and a close-boarded door. To the left of the porch is a casement window with a segmental head. To the right is a lean-to addition, containing a casement window with a segmental head. Further to the right is a single-storey addition with a 20th-century door and casement window. Above the porch is a small casement window, and to the right of that a single sliding sash window.
Local climate
Lawn Cottage 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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