Lessingham House is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1996. House. 4 related planning applications.
Lessingham House
- WRENN ID
- muted-outpost-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rugby
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lessingham House, Leamington Hastings, CV23 8DY
- OS grid reference
- SP 445 675
- Coordinates
- 52.30448, -1.34741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lessingham House is an early 19th-century house, likely built around 1822 for the Reverend Henry Wilmot-Sitwell, and was originally a vicarage. It is constructed of red brick with a slate hipped roof, featuring lead rolls to the hips and ridge, and deep eaves. The house has brick axial stacks topped with yellow clay pots. The plan is rectangular, incorporating a central entrance on the east front and a service wing to the north.
The symmetrical east front has three bays and features 12-pane sash windows with keyed lintels, and ground-floor windows with side lights. A central doorway is framed by consoles supporting a pediment, above a glazed and panelled door. The other elevations have similar sash windows. The north side includes a lower, gable-ended wing on the left, with casement windows incorporating glazing bars, and a porch in the corner with a canopy over a panelled door.
The interior retains original joinery, including panelled doors and an open-well staircase with stick balusters and a mahogany handrail with a wreathed curtail newel. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices and marble chimney pieces are also present. A brick vaulted cellar is also part of the original fabric.
Local climate
Lessingham House 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 65% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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