Horse Shoe House is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Horse Shoe House
- WRENN ID
- vast-tallow-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Horse Shoe House, Horse Shoe Lane, Great Bowden, LE16 7EX
- OS grid reference
- SP 745 885
- Coordinates
- 52.4901, -0.90386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horse Shoe House is a building dating from the 18th century or earlier, located on the north side of Horse Shoe Lane in Great Bowden. It is constructed of red brick with some grey headers and features a steeply pitched roof that is now covered with corrugated iron. The house has a central chimney and the eaves are lower on the west side.
The south gable end facing the street has one window at the first-floor level. The building is 1 ½ storeys tall and has two windows and a central door on the western facade, with the southern window and door featuring painted stone lintels. The northern window is set in a bricked-up porch. On the northern side, there is a single-storey outshut with three windows, which are generally modern or 19th-century casements. The eastern facade has two storeys, two windows, and an outshut that includes a modern wooden porch.
Local climate
Horse Shoe House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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