18, Babelake Street is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Cottage.
18, Babelake Street
- WRENN ID
- eastward-railing-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 18, Babelake Street, Packington
- OS grid reference
- SK 359 143
- Coordinates
- 52.72548, -1.4697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 on Babelake Street is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century. It features a mix of red brick, timber framing, and rendered surfaces, topped with a thatched roof that includes one ridge and two end stacks made of rendered material. The timber frame is visible in parts of both the front and rear, with brick nogging present as well. The right end has a cruck gable with rendered nogging. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has two eyebrow dormers with three lights each. To the left of the door, which is accompanied by a two-light casement window, there are four and two three-light windows to the right. The left end has one and two-light casement windows. At the rear, there is an outshut with a thatched catslide roof and another section with a slate roof.
Local climate
18, Babelake Street receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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