Western House is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Western House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-cinder-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Western House, Main Street, Leire, LE17 5EU
- OS grid reference
- SP 525 903
- Coordinates
- 52.50823, -1.22773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Western House is a mid-19th century brick house built in Flemish bond brickwork with yellow headers and topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building is two stories tall and features a central door with an overlight, framed by an architrave with squared pilasters and a plain entablature. To the left of the door is a 16-light sash window, and there are additional 16-light sash windows on the first floor, all with painted flat arched heads. The lower right window is a canted bay, adorned with dentils and console brackets supporting a moulded fascia. Above the door, there is a 12-light sash window. The house has gable end stacks.
Local climate
Western House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- 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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