Babthorpe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1989. A Eighteenth Century Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Babthorpe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-lintel-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1989
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Babthorpe Cottage, Main Road, Upton, NG23 5TN
- OS grid reference
- SK 738 544
- Coordinates
- 53.08182, -0.89909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Babthorpe Cottage is an almshouse built around 1785 for Ralph Babthorpe. It is constructed of red brick and features a hipped pantile roof with a single central chimney. The building is single storey and has two bays. The garden front includes a plank doorway on the left, which has a wooden lintel that extends over a small two-light sliding sash window to the right. Further right, there is a three-light sliding sash window, followed by a lean-to that has a small fixed light. Inside, there is a single stone bracketed fireplace.
Local climate
Babthorpe Cottage 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 93% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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