Oaks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Blaby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. House.

Oaks Farmhouse

WRENN ID
western-rafter-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blaby
Constituency
Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1987
Type
House
Address
Oaks Farmhouse, Hinckley Road, Kirby Muxloe
OS grid reference
SK 511 031
Coordinates
52.6239, -1.24586
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oaks Farmhouse is a house that has been converted into two dwellings. The building features a late 18th-century rear wing, which has been altered in the 20th century, and a large front wing added around 1830-1840 that extends at right angles. The front wing is constructed of rendered brick and has coved plaster eaves, a hipped roof made of Swithland slate, and flanking brick chimneys. It stands two storeys high and has five bays. Notable architectural details include a chamfered plinth, a first-floor sill band, three-pane sash windows, and central double panelled doors topped with a semicircular fanlight. The rendered porch has a moulded cornice and a plain frieze supported by Doric columns. There is a single-storey bay to the right, likely added later, featuring a parapet and a blocked door. The rear wing is made of roughcast brick that has been whitewashed, also topped with a Swithland slate roof and brick chimneys. This wing is two storeys tall with three bays, featuring a first-floor band course and moulded eaves. The windows have been replaced with 20th-century transomed wooden casements, including three-light windows flanking a two-light window. The ground floor right window has been altered to a 20th-century hipped bay with metal casements and French doors, and there is a central 20th-century door.

Local climate

Oaks 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 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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