Lychgate at East Entrance to Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. Lychgate. 1 related planning application.
Lychgate at East Entrance to Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-quoin-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at East Entrance to Churchyard, High Street, Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold, LE14 4AH
- OS grid reference
- SK 802 250
- Coordinates
- 52.81699, -0.81003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century lychgate, situated at the east entrance to the churchyard. It is timber-framed and built upon low walls of squared limestone. The roof is covered in plain and scalloped tiles, featuring ornamental ridges. The lychgate has ornamental double-leaf gates with wrought iron cresting.
Local climate
Lychgate at East Entrance to Churchyard 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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