The Herrick Homes is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. Almshouse. 3 related planning applications.
The Herrick Homes
- WRENN ID
- fallow-pillar-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1966
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Herrick Homes, 209-215, Forest Road, Woodhouse, LE12 8TZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 538 152
- Coordinates
- 52.73202, -1.20339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Herrick Homes are almshouses built in 1856. They are constructed from slate rubble stone with stone dressings and feature a Swithland slate roof adorned with blue flashing tiles and end finials. The gables have barge boards, and there are central ridge and end stacks on the rear with clustered ashlar flues. The building is a long, symmetrical range of one storey, with a higher roof that is hipped in the center and half hipped at the ends. At each end of the central section, there are two slight doorway projections topped with hipped roofs, which display the initials M.A.H. and A.D. 1856 along with stone coats of arms above the eaves. The windows are oak mullion and transom leaded light windows, arranged as follows from the left: a 3-light window, a 1-light window, a door with the inscription 'Offer unto God thanksgiving' carved above it, a canted bay with a small gable above, another similar bay, a 1-light window, another similar door, a 1-light window, and a final 3-light window.
Local climate
The Herrick Homes 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 77% 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 62% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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