The Homestead and Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. House, garden wall. 1 related planning application.
The Homestead and Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-bronze-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- House, garden wall
- Address
- The Homestead and Garden Wall, 63, Ratcliffe Road, Thrussington, LE7 4UF
- OS grid reference
- SK 647 157
- Coordinates
- 52.73525, -1.04302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a house dating from the late 18th century, accompanied by a garden wall from the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with decorative bands and features a Swithland slate roof with brick end stacks. The house has three storeys and displays three 8/8 sash windows on the first and ground floors, with a 4/8 sash window on the second floor. On the ground floor, there is a tripartite arrangement of 1/1 sash windows flanking a central square brick porch that has a moulded stone font and a blocking course. The entrance features a six-panelled door with an overlight.
At the rear, there are wings, with two-storey extensions at either end. The left wing has an 8/8 sash window above a French window, while the right wing has an 8/8 sash window above a tripartite arrangement of 2/2, 6/6, and 2/2 sash windows. The windows throughout have slightly cambered lintels. A 1½ storey extension projects from the right wing, and from this extension, the garden wall extends forward to Ratcliffe Road and along the front of the house. The garden wall is made of stone-coped red brick, approximately 2 meters high, and features two breaks with piers for carriage gates and a corner arch for a pedestrian gate.
Local climate
The Homestead and Garden Wall receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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