The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the North Warwickshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
The Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- standing-courtyard-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Warwickshire
- Constituency
- North Warwickshire and Bedworth MP: Rachel Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Chestnuts, Old Church Road, Water Orton
- OS grid reference
- SP 176 913
- Coordinates
- 52.52016, -1.74136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnuts is a house dating from the 15th century, with later alterations and additions. It is timber-framed with brick infill panels and some areas of brick rebuilding. The roof is covered with plain tiles and features a brick ridge stack that has a toothed band and pilaster strips. The building has a two-bay hall-house design with flanking cross-wings. It is mainly one storey and has an attic, with a two-storey wing on the right side. The front is irregular with five windows, featuring 19th-century glazing bar casements. The right-hand cross-wing displays the best-preserved framing, which includes large rectangular panels and curved braces, as well as a collar-and-tie-beam roof truss with clasped purlins. The left-hand cross-wing and the left side of the hall range have smaller gables. There is a central lean-to porch that has a 19th-century ribbed door and a carved stone head on each side. The interior has not been inspected but is recorded as having a cruck truss.
Local climate
The Chestnuts receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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