2, Castle Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. House, formerly school.
2, Castle Hill
- WRENN ID
- low-keep-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- House, formerly school
- Address
- 2, Castle Hill, Mountsorrel
- OS grid reference
- SK 581 147
- Coordinates
- 52.72772, -1.14049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 2 on Castle Hill in Mountsorrel is a house that was formerly a school, dated 1742 and altered in the 19th century. It is built of rendered granite rubble stone and has a Swithland slate roof with two ridge stacks and a rear right end stack, all of which are rendered. The entrance faces the garden and features one storey with four 2 over 2 sash windows, a door and a 1-light window to the left, and another door to the right. There is a part-glazed veranda. At the rear, facing Castle Hill, there is a door with an overlight and six windows, mostly 8-pane top-opening. On the left gable end, there is an additional 8-pane window and a slate tablet inscribed 'This English School for poor boys out of Mountsorrel and Swithland given by Joseph Danvers, Esq., 1742'. The roof appears to have 19th-century trusses, but the massive chamfered purlins are likely original.
Local climate
2, Castle Hill 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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