50, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1991. Dental surgery, former school master's house. 5 related planning applications.
50, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- eternal-storey-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth MP: Dr Luke Evans (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1991
- Type
- Dental surgery, former school master's house
- Address
- 50, Main Street, Desford, LE9 9GR
- OS grid reference
- SK 477 035
- Coordinates
- 52.62736, -1.2957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 50 Main Street is a former schoolmaster's house, now functioning as a dental surgery. It was built in 1876 and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings, topped with slate roofs featuring decorative terracotta ridge tiles and two moulded brick stacks. It has a chamfered plinth and a blue brick band at the first floor cill, along with bracketed eaves.
The structure is two stories high and features an off-centre, projecting two-storey gabled porch. This porch has a pointed arched doorway with a four-panel door and an overlight. To the left of the porch, there is a small plain sash window in a pointed arched surround, and above it is a single glazing bar sash also in a pointed arched surround. To the left, set back, is a small glazing bar sash with a chamfered ashlar lintel on the ground floor. To the right, there is a projecting two-storey canted bay window with a double central sash, all framed by pointed arched surrounds. The pointed arched windows feature red and blue brick voussoirs. Above the central double glazing bar sash, there is a wooden gable, with blue brick decorated panels on either side.
Local climate
50, Main Street 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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