Magpie Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Magpie Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-hinge-crag
- 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
- Magpie Cottage, Mill Lane, Frisby on the Wreake, LE14 2NN
- OS grid reference
- SK 696 178
- Coordinates
- 52.75422, -0.9698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magpie Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on Mill Lane, Frisby, and has undergone several alterations. The building’s structure is characterized by box framing with struts and brick nogging, with a whitewashed exterior. It has a slate roof and a rubble plinth. Two coped brick stacks rise from a single gable and a ridge. The cottage is two storeys high and originally had three bays.
The north front features a gabled brick porch of the mid-19th century on the left-hand side, containing two small lancet windows and a weatherstripped door. To the left of the porch is a 20th-century casement window, and to the right, a 20th-century door. Above these windows and doors are three gabled dormers, each containing a three-light Gothic casement window. The rear elevation has a tall two-light 20th-century casement window on the right, flanked to the left by a two-light and to the right by a single three-light glazing bar casement window. Three gabled dormers mirror the arrangement on the north front, each featuring a three-light Gothic casement.
Local climate
Magpie 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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