Leon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Leon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-spandrel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Leon Cottage, Lark Hill Road, Canewdon, SS4 3RZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 886 942
- Coordinates
- 51.61572, 0.72407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leon Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th to 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled gambrel roof and features a central red brick chimney stack. The building has one storey and attics, with two catslide dormers. On the ground floor, there are two small paned casement windows with fanlights and a centrally located vertically boarded door. The 18th to 19th century ceiling beams are visible on the exterior.
Local climate
Leon Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 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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