The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1992. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- slow-lantern-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Limes, Rugby Road, Swinford, LE17 6BN
- OS grid reference
- SP 569 794
- Coordinates
- 52.40967, -1.16445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a house built in the early 19th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century. It is constructed of brick and features a hipped slate roof, with one ridge stack and two lateral stacks. The building has a plinth and overhanging eaves supported by painted brackets. It stands at 2½ storeys tall and has a south-facing front with five bays. The doorway is off-centre and has a flat hood on brackets, leading to a six-panel door with a traceried overlight. To the right of the door is a single glazing-bar sash window, and to the left is a similar window followed by two plain sashes from the late 19th century. Above these, there are five glazing-bar sash windows, and above those, five smaller glazing-bar sashes. All windows feature painted flat arches and painted sills.
Local climate
The Limes 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings