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
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.
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- 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
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