Bents Close is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. House.
Bents Close
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-plinth-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bents Close, Swingbridge Street, Foxton
- OS grid reference
- SP 701 898
- Coordinates
- 52.50216, -0.96761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bents Close is a house built in 1741, with 20th-century additions. It is constructed of brick and has a slate roof with a central ridge stack and a brick plinth. The house features a lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys tall with attics. The east front has three bays, with a slightly off-centre doorway that has a cambered arch and a keystone, leading to a 20th-century plank door. To the right, there is a single two-light casement window with a cambered arch and keystone, and to the left, there is a similar window. Above the door, there is a small oculus flanked by two single two-light casements with flat arches. Further up, there are two 20th-century flat-roofed dormers with two-light casements. The north gable wall features a datestone marked 1741. There are single-storey 20th-century additions to both the left and right of the house. Inside, there is a panelled lobby, a dogleg staircase, plain chamfered main beams and common joists, and an 18th-century corner cupboard with a moulded door frame.
Local climate
Bents Close 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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