53, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Oadby and Wigston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. House. 6 related planning applications.
53, London Road
- WRENN ID
- calm-lime-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oadby and Wigston
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, London Road, LE2 5DN
- OS grid reference
- SK 625 003
- Coordinates
- 52.59735, -1.07771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 London Road is an early 19th-century house made of brick, topped with a Swithland slate roof. It stands three stories tall and features three bays. The central entrance has a door with a lozenge-shaped overlight and a shallow porch with paired panelled outer doors. On either side of the doorway are wide 16-light sash windows with stuccoed heads that include keystones. The first floor has similar windows, with 12 lights above the door. The attic lights are proportionately lower. The house also has a moulded wood eaves cornice and gable end stacks.
Local climate
53, London Road receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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 2018
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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