Uplands Farmhouse and former outbuildings attached to rear is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1989. Farmhouse.

Uplands Farmhouse and former outbuildings attached to rear

WRENN ID
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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
Farmhouse
Address
Uplands Farmhouse and former outbuildings attached to rear, LE12 5DZ
OS grid reference
SK 473 236
Coordinates
52.80855, -1.29893
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Uplands Farmhouse is a house that has been converted into apartments, along with a range of former outbuildings that were stables and a dovecote, which were also converted into two dwellings in 1999. The building dates from the mid to late 18th century, with some casements renewed in the 19th century. It features a red and buff brick plinth that is partly rendered. The main block has a hipped roof, mostly covered in Swithland slates, although the right side has 20th-century interlocking tiles. The outbuildings have tiled roofs. The farmhouse is L-shaped, with a staircase projection at the rear.

The house has three storeys and a cellar, with a front that has four bays. It includes moulded brick band courses and eaves. The late 19th-century wooden casements have horizontal glazing bars and original gauged heads; the ground and first-floor windows are cross casements, while the second-floor windows are of two lights. The six-panelled door in the second bay features a marginally-glazed fanlight and a wooden doorcase with pilasters and a flat cornice hood on moulded brackets. This door is accessed by six brick and stone steps with a slight wrought iron handrail. There is a cellar window with a metal grille to the right, and brick chimneys with three square shafts linked by offset cornices. The rear wing has horizontal sash windows.

Attached to the rear is a two-storey wing with six bays that is now part of the house, featuring horizontal sashes on the first floor and right bays, along with two doors and three stable doors that have adjacent round pitching eyes. At the far end of this wing is a taller dovecote with a stable door.

Inside the house, there is a staircase with wavy splat balusters and a moulded handrail. The room on the ground floor to the left is panelled and has moulded ceiling cornices, as well as narrow pulvinated friezes around the door and fireplace surrounds, which may date from the late 19th to early 20th century. There is a heavy stop-chamfered spine beam and a large fireplace in the ground floor room at the rear, with one fireplace lintel dated 1647.

Local climate

Uplands Farmhouse and former outbuildings attached to rear 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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