Springhill House is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1989. House.

Springhill House

WRENN ID
strange-portal-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North West Leicestershire
Constituency
North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1989
Type
House
Address
Springhill House, 70, High Street, Castle Donington
OS grid reference
SK 442 269
Coordinates
52.83803, -1.34438
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Springhill House is a house built around 1830-1840. It features whitewashed render, a hipped slate roof, and whitewashed render chimneys with rows of square white brick shafts. The house has a double pile design, is two storeys tall with cellars, and consists of three bays. It has flat eaves, four-pane sash windows, and a central half-glazed door with a rectangular fanlight. To the left, there is a lean-to that is set back and has a ramped parapet, while a matching extension from the 1950s is set back to the right. At the rear, there is a central arched staircase window with cast iron glazing bars and intersecting tracery. Inside, the house features contemporary plaster ceiling cornices, door architraves, shutters, and a staircase with a cast iron balustrade.

Local climate

Springhill House 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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