Hillcrest Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1979. Farmhouse.
Hillcrest Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lost-chapel-spring
- 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
- Hillcrest Farmhouse, 2, Church Lane, Sproxton
- OS grid reference
- SK 858 245
- Coordinates
- 52.81133, -0.72781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillcrest Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1810. It is constructed of ironstone with limestone dressings and has a pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high and features three bays. The central entrance has a 20th-century glazed door, flanked by two renewed three-light casements, each with transoms. Above, there are matching casements without transoms. The roof is gabled and has internal brick gable-end stacks.
Local climate
Hillcrest 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 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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