The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- twisted-bracket-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Chestnuts, 15, Kettering Road, LE16 8AN
- OS grid reference
- SP 739 870
- Coordinates
- 52.47678, -0.91212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnuts is an early 19th-century building located on Kettering Road in Little Bowden. It features a rendered facade that is painted white, with a narrow eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof. The structure is three storeys tall and has three windows, each adorned with moulded stone cornices supported by small brackets. The entrance includes a six-panelled door set within a frame that has a similar cornice on moulded brackets. The doorcase is detailed with a moulded architrave and a rectangular fanlight that includes tracery. Additionally, there is a single-storey outshut on the western side, which has a hipped slate roof and a round-arched door with a fanlight.
Local climate
The Chestnuts 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 — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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