Opal Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1979. House. 3 related planning applications.
Opal Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-mortar-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Opal Cottage, 1, the Green, Sproxton, LE14 4QE
- OS grid reference
- SK 822 246
- Coordinates
- 52.81302, -0.78148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Opal Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is built from coursed ironstone and has a pantile roof. The cottage has one storey and a dormer attic. There is a 20th-century door located to the right of the centre. To the left, there is a late 19th-century two-light casement window, and to the right, a late 20th-century three-light casement window. The gabled roof features two dormers: one from the 19th century on the right and one from the 20th century on the left. There is a 20th-century ridge stack positioned left of centre and an internal gable-end stack on the west side.
Local climate
Opal 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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