Old House Conference Centre is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. House, school.

Old House Conference Centre

WRENN ID
tilted-corridor-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North West Leicestershire
Constituency
North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1983
Type
House, school
Address
Old House Conference Centre, Warren Hills Road, Coalville, LE67 4UX
OS grid reference
SK 455 148
Coordinates
52.72942, -1.32657
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old House Conference Centre is a mid-19th century building, originally a house and now serving as a school. It is sometimes attributed to the architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, although there is no evidence to support this claim. The structure is built from Charnwood granite rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring Swithland slate roofs and ridge and lateral chimney stacks made of Charnwood granite.

Designed in the Gothic style, the building has two storeys and an eight-window range with balanced asymmetrical elevations that are buttressed. It includes mullioned windows with four-centred arch-headed lights and an arched doorway located to the left of the centre. Decorative square panels with quatrefoils are present, along with a string course that extends over the first-floor windows. The building has a parapet and an L-plan roof behind lath gabled dormers. On the left side at the first floor level, there is a chapel that is highlighted by a bellcote on the gable. The garden front features gables and two canted bay windows, with the left bay window being two storeys high.

Local climate

Old House Conference Centre 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 69% 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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