Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-forge-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fern Cottage, Low Road, Belton and Manthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 920 376
- Coordinates
- 52.92799, -0.63267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is an estate cottage that has been converted into a house. It was built in the early 19th century and remodeled in the mid-19th century, with some additions and alterations made in the late 20th century. The structure is made of brick with ashlar dressings and features a renewed pantile roof. It has two corbelled brick gable stacks with twisted coped double flues.
The cottage is two storeys high and has a three-window range. The windows, which have been reglazed with metal framed casements, feature chamfered stone surrounds and mullions. There are three two-light windows, with the central window lacking a mullion. A central door from the 20th century has a wooden surround and is flanked by three-light windows. To the left of the main structure, there is a late 20th-century single storey flat-roofed addition.
Fern Cottage was originally provided as housing for workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family of Belton House.
Local climate
Fern 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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- 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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