Limes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Blaby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1986. Farmhouse.
Limes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- waning-tin-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Limes Farmhouse, 11, Main Street, Kilby
- OS grid reference
- SP 618 954
- Coordinates
- 52.55338, -1.08859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Limes Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse and labourer's cottage located on Main Street in Kilby. The building is constructed of painted brick and features a Welsh slate roof. It is three storeys high and consists of two dwellings arranged in four bays. The doorway to No. 15 is situated on the left and is framed by a moulded wood architrave. The windows are three-light casements with transoms and cambered brick heads. The third bay, which is No. 11, is slightly set forward, and its upper windows are also three-light casements. Access to No. 11 is from the side of the building. The farmhouse has gable and axial stacks.
Local climate
Limes Farmhouse 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 71% 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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