Sweetbriar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1994. A C19 Cottage.

Sweetbriar Cottage

WRENN ID
fallow-transept-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Kesteven
Constituency
Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1994
Type
Cottage
Address
Sweetbriar Cottage, 7, Washdyke Lane, Belton and Manthorpe, NG32 2LT
OS grid reference
SK 929 397
Coordinates
52.94694, -0.61801
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sweetbriar Cottage is an estate cottage, now functioning as a house, dated 1850, with some alterations made in the late 20th century. The building is constructed from coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a steeply pitched slate roof. It has two ashlar gable stacks with square coped double flues and is designed in the Jacobean Revival style. The gables are coped and include kneelers. The cottage is a single storey plus attics and has a two-window range. The windows are 20th-century two-light glazing bar casements. There are two through-eaves dormers that also have coped gables, kneelers, and ball finials. The central door has been renewed and is flanked by single windows with flat arches. Above the door is a datestone. This cottage was originally built as housing for workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family of Belton House.

Local climate

Sweetbriar Cottage 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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