7, Lower Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
7, Lower Church Street
- WRENN ID
- kindled-roof-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 7, Lower Church Street, Syston, LE7 1GX
- OS grid reference
- SK 625 118
- Coordinates
- 52.70108, -1.07551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 Lower Church Street is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is built of brick on a cobbled plinth, with remnants of a timber frame, and has a Welsh slate roof. The house is two stories high and has a two-unit plan. The entrance is located to the left of center, framed by a wide architrave. To the right of the doorway is a three-light window, and further right is a blocked opening with a flat arched brick head. There is a blocked window to the left, along with two other windows, one with one light and another with three lights. The wall plate and a raising of the roof are visible above.
A prominent feature of the facade is the cyma moulded string course that runs across it, forming a round arch over the blocked lower opening and continuing across the gable wall, where it creates another round arch. The three-light window now in this arch was not originally related to it. Another string course creates an arch over the first-floor window in the gable wall. To the right of the front elevation, there is an additional lower timber-framed bay, featuring timbers of slight scantling that form square panels with arch braces. This bay has two new windows, one on each floor.
Local climate
7, Lower Church Street receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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