The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1988. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-step-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, North End, Swineshead
- OS grid reference
- TF 232 415
- Coordinates
- 52.95673, -0.16663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century, with some minor alterations from the mid 19th century and 20th century. The exterior is rendered, and it features a pantile roof with brick coped gables and two brick gable stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a three-bay front. The central entrance consists of a 20th-century half-glazed door with an overlight, flanked by single flush margin light sash windows. On the first floor, there are three similar windows.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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