Ahimsa is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1959. A Medieval House.
Ahimsa
- WRENN ID
- gentle-banister-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1959
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Ahimsa, Leigh Sinton, WR13 5EQ
- OS grid reference
- SO 782 507
- Coordinates
- 52.15484, -2.31948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ahimsa is a house that likely dates back to around 1600, with some elements from the 15th century. It features timber-framing with brick infill and a tile roof. The structure includes a cross-wing and the remains of a cruck hall that has been truncated. The house is two storeys high, with 20th-century casement windows. The front gable of the wing has one window on the ground floor and two on the first floor. Inside, the tie-beam is interrupted, and there are V-struts above the collar. The left-hand (east) wall of the wing is framed in square panels, while the rear gable wall includes a tie-beam, collar, and vertical struts. The west wall of the truncated hall range displays exposed cruck blades, a tie-beam, and a collar that is interrupted by a first-floor window, with the blades truncated at an upper collar. There is a doorway to the right of the ground floor window. Some ceiling beams are exposed in the interior, but no further cruck trusses are visible.
Local climate
Ahimsa receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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