Numbers 1-16 The Square, Chapel and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1955. A C18 Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 1-16 The Square, Chapel and Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- slow-alcove-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1955
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Numbers 1-16 The Square, Chapel and Boundary Wall, Frolesworth Road, LE17 5EQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 506 904
- Coordinates
- 52.50919, -1.25492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1-16 The Square, Chapel and Boundary Wall are alms houses located on Frolesworth Road. The original foundation dates back to 1725, when four houses were built. An additional ten houses were added in 1761, followed by ten more in 1796 and 1824. The existing buildings are primarily from the late 18th century to early 19th century, and the 24 cottages were modified into 16 dwellings around 1965. The structure is made of brick with Swithland slate roofs and forms three sides of a courtyard that faces inward. The chapel is situated at the center of the northern range and features an early 19th-century frontispiece, which includes a stone round-headed archway with carved spandrels, flanked by a cupola that contains a clock.
Local climate
Numbers 1-16 The Square, Chapel and Boundary Wall receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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