Wharf Building is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. A Early 19th century Warehouse. 1 related planning application.
Wharf Building
- WRENN ID
- tattered-cellar-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1987
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Wharf Building, Welford Road, Husbands Bosworth
- OS grid reference
- SP 644 809
- Coordinates
- 52.42261, -1.05431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wharf Building is a small warehouse dating from around 1820. It is constructed of brick and features a hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves. The building is two storeys high and has a square plan, consisting of three bays. On the western elevation, there are central double doors on each floor, flanked by four-light casement windows on the ground floor. The northwest gable has a wide chamfered angle at the ground floor.
Local climate
Wharf Building 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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