General Baptist Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1965. Meeting house. 8 related planning applications.
General Baptist Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-soffit-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1965
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- General Baptist Meeting House, Baxtergate, LE11 1TG
- OS grid reference
- SK 537 197
- Coordinates
- 52.77259, -1.20524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The General Baptist Meeting House, built in 1828, is a red brick, two-storey building featuring a five-window range front. It has round-headed windows that have been re-glazed with stained glass, set within round-headed recesses. A massive pediment spans the entire facade. There is a 20th-century porch addition at the ground floor. Inside, the meeting house has a gallery on three sides, supported by iron columns. In front of the building, there are wrought iron railings and gates with lanterns.
Local climate
General Baptist Meeting House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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