Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1991. House. 6 related planning applications.
Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive, City of Leicester
- OS grid reference
- SK 571 038
- Coordinates
- 52.62959, -1.15776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a large house with an attached service wing and lodge, dating back to approximately 1880. It was designed by Ewan Christian. The house is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and has a Cumberland slate hipped roof, punctuated by five tall chimney stacks. It is two storeys high, plus attics.
The front of the house features a chamfered plinth, a band below the ground floor windows, and a second band below the first-floor windows. The windows are metal-framed casement windows. The main entrance has a projecting porch with an ashlar archway, a triple overlight, and an inner plank door, accompanied by two-light mullion windows. Dormers with cross casements are located above the roofline. To the left is a projecting wing, and beyond it, a single-storey service entrance wing. The garden front has five windows and a projecting, three-storey canted bay window, with a three-light central window and flanking two-light cross mullion windows on each floor. A garden door with a double overlight is present, along with various other cross mullion windows. Two hipped dormers with casements are above. Attached to the right is a single-storey service wing, linked to a slightly higher stable wing, which has since been altered.
The lodge, attached to the northwest, is connected by a wall and gates. It has a similar hipped roof and a central stack. It is single-storey in height and arranged in an L-shaped plan. The front of the lodge features a projecting square bay with a three-light mullion casement and a hipped roof. A single hipped dormer window with a two-light casement sits above. A wall encloses a small yard, accessed via a plank gate.
The interior retains many original features, including doors, door frames, and internal shutters. The main staircase features square newels and turned balusters, although the central well has been filled in by a 20th-century lift. A secondary staircase with stick balusters also survives. Numerous rooms contain imitation 18th-century wooden fireplaces.
Local climate
Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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 — 6 applications
- 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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