Pair of Farmhouses, Front Railing and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Farmhouses, boundary wall, railing.

Pair of Farmhouses, Front Railing and Boundary Wall

WRENN ID
calm-wicket-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Melton
Constituency
Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1988
Type
Farmhouses, boundary wall, railing
Address
Pair of Farmhouses, Front Railing and Boundary Wall, Main Street, Buckminster
OS grid reference
SK 889 217
Coordinates
52.78643, -0.68313
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a pair of farmhouses built in 1752, which were refenestrated in the late 20th century. The buildings are constructed from coursed and squared limestone with limestone ashlar dressings and feature a slate roof. They have a chamfered plinth, coped gables with kneelers, and two gable and one central ridge coped stone stacks. The farmhouses are three storeys high, plus garrets, and consist of seven bays.

The symmetrical south side has two fronts. The left front features a half-glazed 20th-century door with a glazing bar overlight, flanked by single wooden cross mullioned casements. The right front has a 20th-century half-glazed door with an overlight and a flanking light to the left, also flanked by single wooden cross mullioned casements. Above each front, there is a central blind window flanked by single wooden cross casements, and above that, a smaller blind window flanked by single two-light casements. Between the two fronts, there is a datestone inscribed "ATW 1752". Each gable has a blocked casement window in the garret.

Outside, there is early 19th-century cast iron spearhead railing with two gates and posts topped with finials. To the left, there is an adjoining boundary wall in an L-shape, measuring 5 meters long, with a blue brick coping.

Local climate

Pair of Farmhouses, Front Railing and Boundary Wall 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 79% 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 72% 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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