3, The Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Blaby local planning authority area, England. House.
3, The Drive
- WRENN ID
- ragged-nave-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 3, The Drive, Countesthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SP 570 954
- Coordinates
- 52.55367, -1.16071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 3 The Drive is a house that was originally one of the cottage homes built by the Leicester Poor Law Union in 1884, designed by architect I Baradale. The building is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof with a cruciform plan. The main elevation has four irregular bays, with a kitchen wing extending out at the rear and a gabled bay to the left of the center that projects forward. The windows are irregularly arranged, featuring a mix of one, two, and three light casement windows, some with mullions and transoms, as well as vertical sashes. All windows have flat arched heads. The top half of the projecting bay is finished in painted plaster and wood. To the left of this bay is a decorative chimney stack made of brick, topped with a pitched slate roof featuring gables, supported by a modillion course. Above this base, two brick flues are set diagonally. The right-hand gable, which faces the drive, has two deeply recessed windows, each under gauged brick arches with voussoirs and brick hood moulds above. To the right of the projecting bay is a brick and Welsh slate porch designed in a "muscular" style.
Local climate
3, The 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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