The Steppes is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. House.
The Steppes
- WRENN ID
- crooked-buttress-magpie
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Steppes, New Street, Ledbury, HR8 2DX
- OS grid reference
- SO 710 375
- Coordinates
- 52.03573, -2.4236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Steppes is a building dating from around 1600, featuring two storeys and an attic, topped with a tiled roof. It is timber-framed with closely spaced studs and plastered infilling. The front facing the road has two gables, with a moulded beam at the base and later additions of bargeboards, pendants, and finials. Both the top and first floors project on a moulded bressummer. To the right, there is an 18th-century two-storey canted bay window with sash windows that have glazing bars. The gables contain two and three-light casement windows with leaded panes, while other sash windows also feature glazing bars. The entrance has a fielded panel door with a rectangular fanlight that includes glazing bars. Inside, the drawing room displays original moulded ceiling beams and double chamfered beams, along with moulded beams on the first floor. The Steppes is part of a group that includes Nos 7 to 15 (odd), Lanark House, No 19, and stables west of No 19.
Local climate
The Steppes receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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