78, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. House.
78, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- floating-flagstone-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- 78, Main Street, Kibworth Harcourt
- OS grid reference
- SP 681 945
- Coordinates
- 52.54444, -0.99671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 78 on Main Street is a house from the 18th century that was extended in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a Swithland slate roof with brick end stacks. The building has a decorative band, a painted modillion cornice, and brick coped gables. It stands 2 and a half storeys tall and has two 2-light mullion and transom windows. The central entrance has a wooden doorcase with pilasters and an entablature, leading to a six-panelled door.
In the attic on the left end, there is a 2-light horizontal sliding sash window and a single-light window. Extending to the left is a long, one-storey mid-19th century outbuilding with a Welsh slate roof and a brick ridge stack, featuring nogged brick eaves and seven 2 and 3-light casements with cambered lintels. There is also an archway on the far left side. At the rear of the main range, there is a small two-storey wing with a moulded brick cornice.
Local climate
78, Main Street receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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