Laburnum Cottage Post Office Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1979. Farmhouse.
Laburnum Cottage Post Office Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pitched-minaret-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Laburnum Cottage Post Office Farmhouse, Main Street, Hoby with Rotherby
- OS grid reference
- SK 676 166
- Coordinates
- 52.7431, -0.99939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laburnum Cottage and Post Office Farmhouse is a pair of houses that were formerly a post office and a dwelling, likely built in the 18th century and raised and re-fronted around 1800. The buildings are constructed of red brick with a slate roof and feature brick ridge stacks, forming an L shape.
The structure is three stories tall with a two-window range. On the left side, there is a 20th-century door with a moulded wood surround, and to the right of the door, there is a two-light casement window on the ground floor, both with segmental-arched heads, along with a bowed shop window at the far right. The first and second floors have two-light casement windows, with the first-floor windows featuring segmental-arched heads and the second-floor windows having brick lintels. The building has a chamfered ironstone plinth and stepped brick eaves.
To the left, there is a single-storey extension with a slate roof and a bowed shop window. The right side elevation has a pair of similar bowed windows on the ground floor flanking a 20th-century part-glazed door with a straight hood supported by brackets. Inside the Post Office Farmhouse, there are two open fireplaces with chamfered bressumers, one of which has a timber crook inside. The building also features chamfered spine beams and joists.
Local climate
Laburnum Cottage Post Office Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% 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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