The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. House.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- leaning-rampart-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Retreat, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 731 874
- Coordinates
- 52.47966, -0.92366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is an 18th-century building located on the west side of High Street. It features a facade made of red brick with grey headers, which was formerly painted. The building has a steeply pitched pantiled roof and end chimneys, with an external chimney on the west end. It is two storeys high and has five sash windows with glazing bars. The Retreat is situated at the rear of Nos 31 and 31a in the former Bennett's Yard.
Local climate
The Retreat receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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