26, Rookery Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1977. House.
26, Rookery Lane
- WRENN ID
- last-chapel-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- 26, Rookery Lane, Groby
- OS grid reference
- SK 524 073
- Coordinates
- 52.66174, -1.22578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 Rookery Lane is a house dating from the late 18th century, with 20th-century additions. It features paired rubble walling accented with brick dressings and a Swithland slate roof, which has two brick-painted gable stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a three-bay front. The central gabled porch contains a small casement window and is flanked by single three-light casements with segmental heads. Above the porch, there are two two-light casements on the left, while the right side has a lean-to addition and a 20th-century addition with a two-light casement.
Local climate
26, Rookery Lane sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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