Dorma House is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1991. A Late C18 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Dorma House
- WRENN ID
- turning-nave-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dorma House, 20, Church Lane, Hoby, Hoby with Rotherby, LE14 3DR
- OS grid reference
- SK 668 175
- Coordinates
- 52.75157, -1.01112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dorma House, formerly known as Hoby House, is a late 18th-century former farmhouse that has been altered in the 20th century. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a Swithland slate roof, a brick ridge, and end and lateral brick stacks. It has an L-shaped plan. The main, three-story section has a four-window front. A panel door is located to the right of centre, above a flat-arched overlight. The ground floor has tripartite sash windows. The first floor above the door has a 16-pane sash window, flanked by tripartite sashes. The second floor has eight-pane sashes, all with flat-arched heads. A projecting wing to the left incorporates a tripartite sash window on the ground floor, a 16-pane sash on the first floor, and an eight-pane sash on the second floor, all with matching flat-arched heads. The wing has a hipped roof. External features include a plinth, storey bands to the main range at the first and second floor levels, dentilled brick eaves, and a brick-coped gable on the right. A single-storey, lean-to range to the rear is likely original. The interior of the building has not been inspected.
Local climate
Dorma House 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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