56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1971. House. 9 related planning applications.
56, High Street
- WRENN ID
- iron-span-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 56, High Street, Oakham, LE15 6AL
- OS grid reference
- SK 859 087
- Coordinates
- 52.66969, -0.72999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
56 High Street is an early 19th-century brick building. It features a projecting eaves cornice supported by paired brackets. The High Street elevation consists of two storeys with three windows; the central window section and the quoins project forward. There is a stone band, and the windows have plain reveals with straight stone arches and cills. The stone doorway has a flat arch, and there is a stone plinth. A modern entrance, added in 1924, is located on Gaol Street.
Local climate
56, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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