Gorse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1979. Farmhouse. 10 related planning applications.
Gorse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solemn-chancel-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Gorse Farmhouse, 9, Main Street, Sproxton, LE14 4QX
- OS grid reference
- SK 822 246
- Coordinates
- 52.81314, -0.78092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gorse Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century that was remodeled in the 20th century. It is constructed from coursed ironstone with some limestone dressings and features 20th-century machine-made pantiles on the roof. The building is two storeys high. The west front has two window bays positioned to the right, featuring late 19th-century sash windows, with a smaller sash window located between the pair on the first floor. To the left of this elevation, there is a blocked doorway, and there is a second blocked doorway on the south gable. The roof is gabled and has 20th-century brick stacks at the internal ends. A two-storey gabled wing extends east from the north end, displaying similar architectural details and 19th-century casement windows.
Local climate
Gorse Farmhouse 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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