The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- tall-soffit-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, Main Street, Blackfordby, Ashby De La Zouch, DE11 8AB
- OS grid reference
- SK 330 182
- Coordinates
- 52.76077, -1.51096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is an early 19th century building located on the west side of Main Street in Blackfordby. It features a red brick facade with a slate roof and a gabled centre porch. The house has two storeys and three windows, which are barred sashes with stuccoed lintels. On the first floor, there is a French casement window below. To the west, there is a recessed, similar two-storey wing.
Local climate
The Old House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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