Museum Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Gedling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Museum. 2 related planning applications.
Museum Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-turret-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gedling
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Museum Cottage, Main Street, Calverton, NG14 6FE
- OS grid reference
- SK 615 492
- Coordinates
- 53.037, -1.08426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Museum Cottage is a cottage that has been converted into a museum, dating from around 1780. It is constructed of brick and features a steeply pitched pantile roof. The building has a rubble plinth, coped gables, and a single ridge stack. It stands two storeys high and consists of two bays. The windows are glazing bar casements. On the east front, there is a door with a segmental head to the left, and to its right, there are two casements with shutters. The north gable has a casement located above, to the left.
Local climate
Museum Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- 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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