The Bedehouses and Adjoining Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 January 1968. A Georgian Almshouse. 7 related planning applications.
The Bedehouses and Adjoining Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- first-gutter-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 January 1968
- Type
- Almshouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Bedehouses and Adjoining Outbuildings, LE14 2SF
- OS grid reference
- SK 812 187
- Coordinates
- 52.76017, -0.79781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are eight almshouses, built in 1732. They were later enlarged and remodelled in the Picturesque style in 1820. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings, featuring pantile and thatched roofs, and has four grouped ridge stacks with projecting ashlar quoins. It is a single storey building with attics, comprising 16 bays.
The west front has a central pair of doors flanked by pairs of casement windows, followed by more doors and casement windows, all terminating in single doors. The doors have Tudor arched heads and the windows are iron casements with three panes, all set within projecting rusticated surrounds with keystone lintels. Six gabled dormers are positioned above. The north and south ends each have a door—the south door has been broken out—and a dormer window above. The rear elevation mirrors the front in terms of fenestration, featuring small segmental-headed casement windows and plank doors.
Adjacent is a quadrangle of partly ruinous outbuildings, measuring 6 bays wide by 3 bays deep. These were originally built for the Earl of Harborough and later remodelled to house estate workers from Stapleford Park. Features include stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
The Bedehouses and Adjoining Outbuildings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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