Saxby House is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Farmhouse.
Saxby House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-mantel-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Saxby House, Main Street, Freeby
- OS grid reference
- SK 820 199
- Coordinates
- 52.77099, -0.78493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Saxby House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 17th century and was remodelled in the mid 18th century, with some 19th-century additions. The building is constructed of coursed rubble and dressed stone, topped with plain tile and pantile roofs. It features a first-floor band, moulded eaves, coped gables with kneelers, and quoins. There are two stone gable stacks and a single brick ridge and gable stacks. The house is two storeys high with garrets and has an L-shaped plan with three bays.
The west front has a central fixed margin light window, flanked by two unusual plain sashes with raised heads and fixed flanking lights, positioned lower than the central window. Above this, there is a central round-headed margin light sash, again flanked by two unusual sashes at a lower level. The south side includes a wing on the left and a 19th-century gabled porch in the return angle. To the right of the porch is a moulded ashlar reveal containing a 20th-century casement, followed by a close-boarded door. Above, there are two 19th-century casements, and to the right is a mullioned casement with a moulded reveal.
On the north side, there is a slightly off-centre projecting bake oven, flanked on the left by a casement and on the right by a triple sash, both from the 19th century. Above, there is a late 19th-century and a mid-19th-century casement. Both the north and south gables feature garret casements. The east gable has two 19th-century casements with wooden lintels, and above these is a central 19th-century casement.
Local climate
Saxby House 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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