Curiosity Cottage and Adjoining Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. Cottage, shop. 1 related planning application.
Curiosity Cottage and Adjoining Shop
- WRENN ID
- brooding-mortar-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage, shop
- Address
- Curiosity Cottage and Adjoining Shop, NG22 9AA
- OS grid reference
- SK 653 673
- Coordinates
- 53.19937, -1.02329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Curiosity Cottage and the adjoining shop are a late 18th-century building located on the southwest side of Ollerton Market Place. The structure is made of brick and features a pantile roof with dentillated eaves and a single gable stack. It stands two storeys tall and consists of three bays. The windows include two and three light mullioned casements. The front of the building has an off-centre panelled door with a segmental head, which is flanked by single casements. To the right, there is a 20th-century glazed door and shop window, with three smaller casements located above.
Local climate
Curiosity Cottage and Adjoining Shop sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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