Ley Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Ley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bonework-thyme
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ley Farmhouse, Callans Lane, Calke, Ashby De La Zouch, LE65 1RJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 368 212
- Coordinates
- 52.78766, -1.45557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ley Farmhouse is a 16th century timber-framed house featuring a stone plinth, with some areas of red brick and plastered infill. The building has a tiled roof and stands one and a half storeys high, with two gabled dormers. Inside, there is some exposed close studding on the rear wall, located on the north-eastern side. The interior also boasts massive chamfered ceiling beams and a curved wooden lintel above an off-centre fireplace. The doors have moulded architraves and there are modern casement windows. Additionally, there is a red brick cross wing on the north-eastern side of the house.
Local climate
Ley Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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