White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Cottage.

White Cottage

WRENN ID
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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
White Cottage, Burrough End, Burton and Dalby
OS grid reference
SK 744 140
Coordinates
52.71942, -0.89941
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Cottage is a mid 18th century cottage located in Burrough End, Great Dalby. It is constructed of mud and brick, which is colourwashed, and features a steeply pitched corrugated iron roof. The building has a single brick ridge stack and is a single storey plus attics, consisting of two bays.

The front of the cottage has two two-light casement windows. To the right, there is a sloping dormer that also contains a two-light casement window. The left gable features a recessed 20th-century door with a 20th-century timber hood. To the right of this door, there is a two-light sliding sash window, and above it, a central two-light sliding sash window.

Local climate

White 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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