Hill Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Hill Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-gable-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Top Farmhouse, Melbourne Road, Staunton Harold, LE65 1RU
- OS grid reference
- SK 384 208
- Coordinates
- 52.78409, -1.43085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Top Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse that incorporates earlier elements. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features two storeys with three bays, a central door, and sash windows that have rusticated heads. To the right of the main building, there is a long single-storey structure made of stone and brick, which has a blocked doorway and a carved 17th-century panel displaying the arms of the Shirley family along with two crests. Inside the house, there is a four-centred doorway dating from around 1600.
Local climate
Hill Top 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- 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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