The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. A C17 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-attic-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, the Drift, Syston
- OS grid reference
- SK 928 406
- Coordinates
- 52.95532, -0.61999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has undergone alterations and additions in the 19th century. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, with ashlar quoins and brick dressings, topped with a pantile roof and brick gable stacks. The cottage is a single storey plus attic and features a five-bay facade. At the right end, there is a 20th-century plain boarded door with a segmental brick head. To the left of the door is a single glazing bar sash window with a brick segmental head, followed by a small fixed light with a wooden lintel, and then two glazing bar casement two-light windows, each with segmental brick heads. The roof includes two 2-light casement dormers with sloping pantile roofs and rendered cheeks. To the right, there is a single-storey one-bay 19th-century extension with a glazing bar sash window.
Local climate
The Old 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 82% 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 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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