Paradise Cottage West and Paradise Cottage East is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1976. Houses. 2 related planning applications.

Paradise Cottage West and Paradise Cottage East

WRENN ID
guardian-barrel-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lindsey
Constituency
Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1976
Type
Houses
Address
Paradise Cottage West and Paradise Cottage East, Church Folly, Caistor, LN7 6UG
OS grid reference
TA 117 012
Coordinates
53.49653, -0.31745
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Paradise Cottage West and Paradise Cottage East are a pair of houses built in the early 19th century. They are constructed from coursed ironstone rubble and red brick, featuring a pantiled roof with stone coped gables and kneelers, along with two ridge stacks. The brick front has been toothed into the ironstone gable at the left end. The buildings are three storeys high, with six bays on the ground floor and four bays on the first floor, and they have a brick dentillated eaves course.

On the ground floor, there is a central glazed 20th-century door with a three-pane overlight, flanked by a pair of glazing bar sash windows and another glazed door, which is covered by a 20th-century glazed porch. The first floor has four glazing bar sash windows, while the second floor features four smaller glazing bar sash windows. All openings have brick segmental heads.

Inside, there are two 19th-century cast iron ranges with plain surrounds and bracketed mantels, and upstairs, there are two bath grates. The floors are made of lime ash. The external stone walls at the rear and gables are three feet thick, with very large quoins and some chalk patching at a high level. There is a local tradition that the building was originally a tithe barn, but this seems unlikely given its narrowness, height, and the absence of large side openings at the rear.

Local climate

Paradise Cottage West and Paradise Cottage East receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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