Hurst's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Hurst's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lone-wicket-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hurst's Farmhouse, Glen Road, Wistow, LE8 9FH
- OS grid reference
- SP 639 970
- Coordinates
- 52.56723, -1.05841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hurst's Farmhouse is a house dated 1712 with early 19th-century elements, located on Glen Road. The building is constructed of red brick, with some dark bricks, and features a Welsh slate roof with brick ridges and stacks at the left end and rear. The main front is oriented to the rear and consists of two ranges, with the right range dating from 1712 and standing two storeys high.
On the first floor of the right range, there are five casements: from the left, a centre-opening three-light, a two-light, another centre-opening three-light, a one-light, and a three-light window. The three-light windows have cambered lintels. The ground floor features, from the left, a three-light window, a blocked door, a one-light window, a centre-opening three-light window, a door, and another three-light window, the last of which also has a cambered lintel. This range has a plinth and a band.
The left range, which is early 19th century and possibly built on 18th-century foundations, has three storeys. It includes a centre-opening three-light casement on both the first and ground floors, and on the second floor, there is a three-over-three sash window, a three-light horizontal sliding sash, another three-over-three sash, and a one-light casement. On the ground floor to the right, there is a gabled porch with a six-panelled door, where the top four panels are glazed.
Facing Glen Road, there are various casements, including two two-over-two sashes and a part-glazed door. Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered beams and two inglenook fireplaces. On the earlier range facing Glen Road, there is a stone tablet inscribed with 'B' over 'RA 1712'. The building was formerly known as The Poplars.
Local climate
Hurst's Farmhouse 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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