2, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. House.
2, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- steep-marble-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, Main Street, Houghton on the Hill
- OS grid reference
- SK 680 036
- Coordinates
- 52.6262, -0.99556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located at 2 Main Street in Houghton on the Hill, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a Welsh slate roof with brick end stacks. The building has moulded brick eaves and a gable facing the front to the left. It stands 2½ storeys high and has three 6/6 sash windows, with the two on the ground floor having cambered lintels. The central entrance is framed by a wooden doorcase with a flat bracketed canopy, leading to a four-panelled door with glazed upper panels and a fanlight above. On the left end, there is an attic window with two lights, while the right end features a two-light casement window on the ground floor and another two-light window in the attic. Extending to the right along Main Street is a two-storey wing with an end stack, which includes a two-light horizontal sliding sash and a two-light casement, with two similar two-light sashes above, all having cambered lintels on the ground floor.
Local climate
2, Main Street receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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