30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1968. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- deep-tower-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1968
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35, Main Street, Ashby St. Ledgers, CV23 8UN
- OS grid reference
- SP 568 682
- Coordinates
- 52.30914, -1.16753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of six cottages located on Main Street, built in 1908 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Ivor Guest, Lord Wimborne. The cottages feature a coursed ironstone and limestone rubble plinth, with upper walls made of brick and pebbledash, and are topped with a thatched roof and brick stacks. The design has a symmetrical plan with two wings that project from the front.
The central section is two storeys tall, with an attic and consists of nine bays. The two-bay wings have pyramid-shaped hipped roofs that slope down to the lintels of the ground floor windows, and they feature large stacks at the apex. The outer bays maintain a similar low roof line. A central passageway is marked by a moulded stone four-centred arch, which has an ornamental date plaque above it.
All doorways and windows are framed with pebbledash surrounds. The doorways in the central block are located in the third bay from both the left and right, featuring flat timber hoods and ribbed plank doors. The doorways on the left and right sides of the flanking wings have half-glazed doors. Most windows are 2-light casements, except for the outer bays, which have canted bay windows. The central block has four half-dormers, while the flanking wings have roof dormers. Attic windows are present in the end cottages on the side walls, and the roof has a half-hipped design.
The interior was not inspected, but in 1913, each cottage was noted to have a kitchen, scullery, parlour, and three bedrooms, as recorded by L. Weaver in "Houses and Gardens by E.L. Lutyens."
Local climate
30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35, Main Street receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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