Church Hill Farmhouse and Attached Former Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Church Hill Farmhouse and Attached Former Barn
- WRENN ID
- eternal-belfry-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Hill Farmhouse and Attached Former Barn, Main Street, Frolesworth, LE17 5EE
- OS grid reference
- SP 502 906
- Coordinates
- 52.51145, -1.26041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Hill Farmhouse is a late 18th-century brick farmhouse, with a graffito indicating construction in 1778. The main block is three storeys high and has three bays, with a central doorway that originally had a taller opening featuring a cambered head and keystone. The ground and first-floor windows are renewed three-light casements with transoms, set within original openings with cambered brick heads and keystones. Attic windows are three-light casements with timber lintels. A brick sill band runs along the front. Gable end stacks are present. A lower, two-storeyed service range is attached to the right, with a two-unit plan and three-light casement windows within cambered brick heads. The rear gable angle of this range is corbelled out at first-floor level. A two-storeyed rear wing is also attached. The interior features a large inglenook and a spine beam with a cyma moulded stop and run-out stops. The staircase is likely from the 18th century, with a geometric balustrade design influenced by Chinese motifs. The roof was originally thatched and at a steeper pitch, and double purlins, resulting from alterations, are visible inside. Attached to the south is a range of outbuildings which were formerly a barn and stables, now used as business premises. These buildings are of brick construction with a Welsh slate roof. They include one renewed window, four original doorways with cambered brick heads, and one retained bullseye window.
Local climate
Church Hill Farmhouse and Attached Former Barn receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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