The Bakehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Blaby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1981. Farmhouse, outbuildings, cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Bakehouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-bastion-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse, outbuildings, cottage
- Address
- The Bakehouse, 30, Main Street, Kilby, LE18 3TD
- OS grid reference
- SP 620 954
- Coordinates
- 52.55304, -1.08609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bakehouse is a farmhouse, outbuildings, and cottages dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. The farmhouse faces the street and is constructed of brick with a concrete tiled roof, which may have been raised in the late 19th century. It is two stories high and has a two-unit plan, featuring a central six-panelled door set in a slight architrave with paired console brackets. On each floor, there are three-light casement windows flanking the door. To the right, there is a small single-storey wash house with a Swithland slate roof.
The rear wing of the farmhouse is both recessed and advanced to the west, showcasing an upper Gothick lancet window beneath a drop-ended hoodmould in the gable end, along with two horizontally sliding sash windows on the long elevation. Behind this, a parallel rear wing extends as outbuildings that were formerly pig sties, and at right angles to this are two cottages made of brick with Welsh slate roofs.
One cottage has a two-unit plan with a doorway to the right and a three-light casement window to the left, both featuring cambered brick heads. The upper windows are two-light horizontally sliding sashes, and there is an axial stack. The other cottage is a single unit with a doorway to the right, a two-light casement window on the ground floor, and a horizontally sliding sash window above, topped with a lower roof and a gable end stack. The inner face of the former pig sties has three doors that have been converted into windows, with three-light horizontally sliding sash windows above. The inner rear wing of the house includes a central doorway framed in a moulded wood architrave with a canopy supported by console brackets.
Local climate
The Bakehouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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