Webster's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1992. Farmhouse.
Webster's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-pilaster-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1992
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Webster's Farmhouse, Lutterworth Road, Swinford
- OS grid reference
- SP 568 795
- Coordinates
- 52.41128, -1.16587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Webster's Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It features a mix of timber framing, brick, and some stone, topped with a thatched roof that has a stone-coped gable with kneelers on the left and a bargeboarded gable on the right. The house has two ridge stacks and is 1½ storeys high.
On the south front, there is a three-bay brick range on the left, followed by six bays of late 17th-century square framing with 18th-century brick infill on the right. The left three bays include an off-centre doorway with a 20th-century four-panel door set within a segmental arch. To the left of the door, there are two 2-light casements with segmental arches, and above them, a single 2-light casement. The six bays on the right have a rendered plinth and feature two 3-light casements in the second and fifth bays, with similar windows above in each of these bays, all of which are 20th-century casements.
Notable details include the letters "IC" in burnt headers below the first-floor window in the second bay, and the date "1718" in burnt headers below the first-floor window in the fifth bay. The first, fourth, and sixth bays also have decorative diamond shapes in burnt headers.
Local climate
Webster's Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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