Foresters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Cottage.
Foresters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-eave-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Foresters Cottage, Main Street, Doddington and Whisby
- OS grid reference
- SK 901 699
- Coordinates
- 53.21872, -0.65157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forester's Cottage is an 18th-century brick cottage with pantile ridge roofs, located on the west side of Main Street in Doddington and Whisby. The building is double pile, two stories high, and has two bays. The east-facing doorway features a 20th-century board door and a 19th-century wooden porch with trellis work. There are two glazing bar sliding casements beneath brick segmental arches, and above them are two similar sliding casements with flat heads. The east front has two gables, with a single glazing bar sliding casement beneath a wooden lintel below, a small sash window to the south, and a sliding casement under a brick segmental arch to the north. The cottage also has a decorated brick eaves cornice.
Local climate
Foresters 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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