Humphrey Babington House is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Almshouse. 2 related planning applications.
Humphrey Babington House
- WRENN ID
- spare-pewter-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Humphrey Babington House, 24-32, North Street, Barrow Upon Soar
- OS grid reference
- SK 577 177
- Coordinates
- 52.75385, -1.1464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Humphrey Babington House is a pair of almshouses built in 1825, originally established as a women's almshouse, extending the original bequest of Humphrey Babington, who founded Theophilus Cave's almshouses. The building features white brickwork in a thin Gothic style and consists of two storeys with five bays. The central bay projects with a steeply pitched gable that has polygonal chimneys at the corners resembling turrets. It includes a central doorway with a pointed arch beneath a hoodmould, which is now blocked and has been converted into a window. Above this doorway is a two-light Gothic arched window, along with an inscription tablet and a coat of arms. The gable has a parapet and a decorative string course that follows the roof's angle, continuing across the facade. The other bays contain two-light Gothic-style windows with latticed panes and hoodmoulds. The building also features corner buttresses and gable and chimney stacks. In 1976, the interior accommodation was altered.
Local climate
Humphrey Babington 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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 1997
- 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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