Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-sill-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Holly Cottage, Old Great North Road, Carlton-On-Trent
- OS grid reference
- SK 798 638
- Coordinates
- 53.16605, -0.8075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located in Carlton on Trent. It is constructed of brick that has been colourwashed and features a steeply pitched pantile roof. The building has cogged eaves and two coped gables with kneelers, along with two gable stacks. It is a single storey plus attic structure with two bays, arranged in an L-plan.
To the right, there is a single storey 18th-century lean-to addition, also made of brick and topped with a tiled roof and coped gables. The east front of the cottage has a central door flanked by single glazing bar Yorkshire sash windows, all of which have segmental heads. Above, there are two 20th-century gabled dormers with tile-hung sides and single casement windows. The north front features a single casement window. At the rear, there is a 20th-century two-storey wing, constructed of brick and covered with a pantile roof.
Local climate
Holly Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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