The Cedar is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1962. House. 1 related planning application.
The Cedar
- WRENN ID
- sheer-stair-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cedar, 36, High Street, Castle Donington, DE74 2PP
- OS grid reference
- SK 443 270
- Coordinates
- 52.83922, -1.34364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cedar is a house dating from around 1830, with some minor alterations and traces of an earlier building. It features white-washed roughcast and has a hipped roof covered with 20th-century interlocking tiles, along with rendered chimneys that have pairs of shafts. The house is double-piled and consists of two storeys with three bays across and three bays deep.
The front façade facing the road includes a prominent late 19th-century rectangular bay window on the left, which has French doors, a wooden cornice, and a flat roof. To the right is a large tripartite sash window. The first floor has three-pane sash windows. The central entrance is a 19th-century half-glazed door topped with an ornamental radiating fanlight set in a depressed arch, surrounded by a hollow-chamfered frame. The rendered doorcase features Doric columns, a simply panelled frieze, and a flat cornice.
On the right side of the house, there are three-pane sashes, with the leftmost window being blind. The central bay has double half-glazed doors with a marginally glazed fanlight above. Both the door and the sash window above it have raised surrounds with cornices and scroll brackets, with the window also featuring a bracketed sill. The irregular rear of the house has a slight projection to the right, three-pane sashes, and a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight set in a segmental arched recess.
Local climate
The Cedar sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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