The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. A C17 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

The Homestead

WRENN ID
night-pinnacle-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Kesteven
Constituency
Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
The Homestead, High Street, Eagle and Swinethorpe, LN6 9DH
OS grid reference
SK 876 668
Coordinates
53.19117, -0.68993
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Homestead is a 17th-century cottage that features a timber-framed and rendered structure. It has a 20th-century tiled roof with a single ridge stack and a single gable stack. The cottage consists of five bays and is a single storey plus attic. It has five sliding casement windows and additional sliding casement windows in the gables of the attic. Inside, there are chamfered beams, and there is evidence of at least one crack in the building.

Local climate

The Homestead 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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