Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1989. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- late-jade-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth MP: Dr Luke Evans (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Elms Farmhouse, 70, Main Street, Higham on the Hill, CV13 6AH
- OS grid reference
- SP 381 954
- Coordinates
- 52.55563, -1.43843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elms Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of red brick sitting on a Charnwood rubblestone plinth, topped with a plain tile roof and featuring a brick stack to the left of the centre. The building has a three-room plan, with an unheated room located to the right. It stands two storeys high and includes a toothed brick eaves band. The front has three windows, featuring large wooden casements with segmental heads on the ground floor. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door set within an architrave surround, accompanied by a flat-roofed openwork timber porch.
Local climate
Elms Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- 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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