Spring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Spring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-barrel-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Spring Cottage, Scalford, LE14 4QL
- OS grid reference
- SK 784 245
- Coordinates
- 52.81256, -0.83785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that has been altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble and features a glazed pantile roof with brick ridge and end stacks. The cottage has a three-unit plan and is two stories tall with a three-window range. There is a ridged door to the left of center and a 20th-century glazed door to the right of center, both of which have wooden lintels. The ground floor has a two-light casement window, while the first floor includes a two-light casement window to the left, a one-light window in the center, and another two-light window to the right, all with wooden lintels. The building also has quoins. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Spring 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 — 2 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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