Little Belvoir is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1953. Country house.

Little Belvoir

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Melton
Constituency
Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1953
Type
Country house
Address
Little Belvoir, Ab Kettleby
OS grid reference
SK 712 240
Coordinates
52.8089, -0.94475
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Belvoir is a country house built in 1839 for Thomas Johnson. It was enlarged in the mid-19th century and altered in 1906. The exterior is cement-rendered to imitate masonry and features a hipped slate roof with rendered internal stacks. The house is designed in an L-shape and has two storeys, except for a three-storey hexagonal angle turret on the right, which was formerly a porch. This turret has a Tudor-arched head and a hood mould above a former doorway, now a window, as well as one-light windows with arched heads and hood moulds, mock machicolations, and battlements. The main body of the house includes two- and three-light windows with wood mullions, arched heads to the lights, and hood moulds. There is a double string course at the first-floor level, a string course at the base of the battlemented parapet, and a bartizan at the right angle of the garden front. The interior has not been inspected. The house was originally known as Wartnaby House or Castle.

Local climate

Little Belvoir 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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