Snowdrop Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1975. A C17 Cottage.
Snowdrop Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-outpost-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Snowdrop Cottage, Tom Lane, North Rauceby, Sleaford, NG34 8QW
- OS grid reference
- TF 022 462
- Coordinates
- 53.00408, -0.47795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Snowdrop Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof with a single ridge and gable red brick stacks. The building has an L-plan layout and is a single storey plus attics, with a six-bay front. The front includes two planked doors, three two-light timber mullioned glazing bar casement windows, and one single three-light timber mullioned glazing bar casement window. All openings are topped with timber lintels. The roof has four two-light glazing bar sliding sash dormers that are positioned beneath thatched eyebrows.
Local climate
Snowdrop Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
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