Number 21 and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1979. A C17 Farmhouse.

Number 21 and Attached Outbuilding

WRENN ID
silver-bracket-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Melton
Constituency
Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 August 1979
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Number 21 and Attached Outbuilding, Wartnaby Road, Ab Kettleby
OS grid reference
SK 724 230
Coordinates
52.80002, -0.92758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 21 is a farmhouse located on Wartnaby Road in Ab Kettleby, dated around 1626 and altered and extended around 1800. The building is constructed from coursed squared ironstone and features a Swithland slate roof with rendered ridge and end stacks. Originally designed in an L-plan, it has since been modified to a T-plan. The farmhouse is two stories high with a two-window range. It has a four-panel door that was originally central but is now positioned to the left of center, framed by pegged wood. Above the door is a worn limestone datestone inscribed with the year 1626. The windows on the first and second floors are three-light casements with segmental-arched heads, except for a two-light window on the ground floor to the left. The eaves are stepped brick. An additional right end bay, added around 1800, is made of red brick in Flemish bond and features a storey band, but has no windows facing the street. To the left of the farmhouse is a single-storey outbuilding made of coursed squared ironstone with a pantile roof. Inside, the farmhouse has boxed spine beams.

Local climate

Number 21 and Attached Outbuilding 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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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