3-5, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1990. Terrace of cottages.

3-5, Main Street

WRENN ID
drifting-slate-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Kesteven
Constituency
Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1990
Type
Terrace of cottages
Address
3-5, Main Street, Aswarby and Swarby
OS grid reference
TF 068 399
Coordinates
52.94669, -0.41145
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 3-5 on Main Street are a terrace of estate cottages built in 1845 for the Whichcote family of Aswarby Park. The cottages are constructed from coursed squared limestone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and have slate roofs with raised stone coped gables and moulded kneelers. The roof also includes three banks of ashlar lozenge stacks with stepped cornices.

The building has a single storey plus attics and a seven-bay front, with the middle three bays slightly advanced and gabled. Central double planked half-glazed doors are set in a gabled porch, which has the date 1845 displayed on a rectangular datestone above the door. This is flanked by single light windows, and beyond these are pairs of two-light windows.

On the first floor, there is a central two-light window flanked by pairs of through eaves gabled dormers that feature raised gables, ashlar cheeks, and two-light windows. All windows have chamfered stone surrounds and chamfered timber mullions, with moulded heads only on the ground floor. The central gable displays a shield bearing the Whichcote arms, while attached gabled porches at either end of the block have chamfered segmental outer arches that bear the Whichcote cypher.

Local climate

3-5, Main Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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