The Checkered Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. House.
The Checkered Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-vault-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Checkered Cottage, Burrough End, Burton and Dalby
- OS grid reference
- SK 744 140
- Coordinates
- 52.71933, -0.89889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Checkered Cottage is a house with an adjoining cottage and workshop, now functioning as a house. It dates from the early 18th century, was raised in the late 18th century, and has early 19th and 20th-century additions. The building is constructed of brick and coursed ironstone, topped with steeply pitched corrugated iron roofs. It is comprised of one and two storeys and features five bays.
The front façade has a two-bay house on the right, characterized by a rubble plinth, checkered brickwork, and dentillated eaves. The central door is flanked by single three-light casements with segmental heads. Above the door, there are two 19th-century three-light casements with flat heads. To the left is the former cottage, which has a three-light sliding sash window and a close boarded door to its right. The former workshop, located further left, features an altered 19th-century two-light casement and a 20th-century casement. Beyond this, there is a corrugated iron shed.
Local climate
The Checkered Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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