7, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Blaby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1957. House. 8 related planning applications.
7, The Square
- WRENN ID
- solitary-bronze-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- 7, The Square, Countesthorpe, LE8 5RN
- OS grid reference
- SP 585 955
- Coordinates
- 52.5544, -1.13792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 The Square is a house dating from the late 16th century. It has a timber frame and roofs made of Swithland and Welsh slate. The building is two stories tall and consists of five bays. At the center, there is a full-height gabled porch with a two-light window above the door. The left side of the house features brick construction with two-light casement windows on each floor. The right side is fully timber framed, raised on a rubble plinth, and has close studding on the ground floor with straight arched bracing to the principal posts. This section has a jettied upper story with wider panels, and the principal posts are moulded into consoles. There are three-light casement windows on each floor, along with an additional small window on the ground floor. The house has axial and rear wall stacks.
Local climate
7, The Square 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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