Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1974. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lesser-nave-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Elms Farmhouse, Frolesworth Road, Leire, LE17 5HJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 525 899
- Coordinates
- 52.50507, -1.2278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elms Farmhouse is a house that dates from the early 18th century, and it may have an earlier core. It is built of brick and has a Welsh slate roof. The building has a main range and a gabled cross-wing, making it two and a half storeys tall and consisting of three units. The gabled wing features triple light sash windows on both the ground and first floors, as well as a window in the attic.
To the left of the main range, there is a doorway with a six-panelled door set within a wooden architrave, topped by a small canopy and a delicately worked frieze in an Adam style. Flanking this doorway are three-light casement windows, and there is another doorway that also has a six-panelled door. The upper windows are casements with two and three lights, featuring leaded panes. All windows have cambered gauged brick heads. The roof has two hipped dormers and an axial stack.
Local climate
Elms Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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