55, Leicester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. Cottage.
55, Leicester Road
- WRENN ID
- waning-facade-solstice
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- 55, Leicester Road, Kibworth Harcourt
- OS grid reference
- SP 679 946
- Coordinates
- 52.5454, -0.99894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 55 is a cottage located on Leicester Road, dated 1776. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and features a Welsh slate roof with a brick central ridge and end stacks. The building has two storeys, with three 2-light casements above a 3-light casement and two 20th-century 3-light bow windows. The entrance door is situated on the right end of the cottage. There is an extension at the rear, and the date 1776 is inscribed in brick at the center of the front.
Local climate
55, Leicester Road 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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