Garat's Hay is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. A C19 House. 5 related planning applications.
Garat's Hay
- WRENN ID
- veiled-buttress-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Garat's Hay, Forest Road, Woodhouse, LE12 8UZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 538 151
- Coordinates
- 52.73116, -1.20357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garat's Hay is a large house built in the early 19th century and later in 1896. It features granite and slate rubble stone that is rendered, along with buff brick, some of which is rendered, and a roof that combines Swithland slate and plain tiles with various ridge stacks. The house is square and has two storeys, with the main entrance located to the left of the road front, which also includes a secondary pavement door. The entrance front and the secondary door were added in 1896, while the main garden front to the left and the rear garden front are from the early 19th century.
The entrance front has a central doorway accessed by stone steps, featuring a two-leaved part-glazed door with an overlight and a single light on either side. The windows have leaded lights dating from around 1900, some of which are stained glass. Above the entrance, there is a Swithland slate canopy. To the left on the first floor, there is a canted oriel bay with sash windows. The main garden front to the left has a battlemented parapet and a central two-storey canted section that includes a Gothic arched doorway with two-leaved part-glazed doors and a 6/6 sash window above, which has a hood mould over it. There are additional sash windows on the canted sides and two 6/6 sashes on either side of this section, although the first-floor windows at the far left and right are blank.
The road front, built in 1896, has a buff brick ground floor and rendered upper levels, featuring nine windows, mostly 6/6 sashes. The door is located centre-right and is accessed by three stone steps within a flat-topped porch, which is supported on the left by a column and on the right by a stone-coped wall of a one-storey extension. The first floor to the left has a twin gable with jettying. The rear garden front, to the right of the road front, has six similar sash windows and canted two-storey bays with sash windows at each end. Inside, the entrance hall features a window and a part-glazed screen, both with leaded lights from around 1900, some of which are stained glass. The building has group value with the Church of St. Mary in the Elms.
Local climate
Garat's Hay 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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