The Berries and Attached Barn and Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1992. Farmhouse.

The Berries and Attached Barn and Wall

WRENN ID
idle-pillar-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1992
Type
Farmhouse
Address
The Berries and Attached Barn and Wall, Stanford Road, Swinford
OS grid reference
SP 570 792
Coordinates
52.40806, -1.16322
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Berries is a farmhouse with an attached barn and a mud wall, dating from the late 18th century, with some alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of red brick, with some stone elements, and features a 20th-century composite tile roof that has a coped left gable with stone kneelers. The building has one ridge stack and one gable stack, and a brick plinth. It stands two storeys high with an attic.

The east front has a dentilled cornice and consists of four bays. There is an off-centre doorway that has a 20th-century part-glazed door set within a cambered arch. To the left of the doorway, there are two three-light casements with cambered arches, and to the right, there is a single similar casement. Above these, there is a single-light casement, with two three-light casements to the left and another similar casement to the right, all featuring cambered arches. In the left gable, there is a two-light sliding sash window with a cambered arch.

At the rear, there is a two-storey range that includes an attached brick and timber-framed barn set on a brick plinth, topped with a corrugated iron roof. The north wall of the barn has panels of square framing, two panels high, with brick infill. The south wall is made of brick and has a large doorway with double plank doors. Attached to the right on the north side is a mud wall that has a rubblestone plinth and corrugated iron coping, measuring approximately 1.5 meters high and 15 meters long, curving along its length.

Local climate

The Berries and Attached Barn and Wall 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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