Limetrees and April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1966. House, cottage. 5 related planning applications.

Limetrees and April Cottage

WRENN ID
rough-chamber-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Milton Keynes
Constituency
Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1966
Type
House, cottage
Address
Limetrees and April Cottage, 6, South Street, Castlethorpe, MK19 7EL
OS grid reference
SP 798 443
Coordinates
52.09186, -0.83615
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Limetrees and April Cottage is a house and attached cottage located on South Street in Castlethorpe. The main structure dates from the 18th century, with 19th-century additions. The building is constructed from coursed rubblestone, while the right-hand addition is made of brick. Both sections have slate roofs.

Limetrees features three bays and two storeys, with the two-storey brick addition on the right. It has sash windows, with four panes on the ground floor and three panes on the first floor. There is a six-panel door located between the right-hand bays, which is topped by a fanlight and has a moulded hood supported by elaborate double scroll brackets. The building has gable end stacks and one stack located between the left-hand bays.

April Cottage, to the left, consists of one bay and two storeys, with a projecting one-storey wing to the north. It has a six-panel door with a simple hood and a gable stack.

Local climate

Limetrees and April 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 86% 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Numbers 2/4 (The Inglenook) Grade II 42 m
  2. 3, South Street Grade II 66 m
  3. The Carrington Arms Public House Grade II 75 m
  4. 12 and 14, North Street Grade II 101 m
  5. 9, School Lane Grade II 113 m
  6. 11, School Lane Grade II 121 m
  7. Rose Cottage Grade II 136 m
  8. Castle House Grade II 157 m
  9. Church of St Simon and St Jude Church of St Simon and St Peter Grade I 161 m
  10. Castlethorpe War Memorial Grade II 185 m