The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1959. House.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- wild-truss-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Redditch MP: Chris Bloore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Limes, Shakespeare Lane, Harvington
- OS grid reference
- SP 056 487
- Coordinates
- 52.13683, -1.91948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a house dating from the 17th century, with some alterations made in the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. It features a timber-frame construction with rendered infill set on a lias plinth and has a machine tile roof. The building has a T-plan layout, with a cross-wing that runs north to south and an additional range extending east, which consists of three framed bays.
The entrance lobby is positioned against the central stack of the eastern range. The house is one storey high with an attic, which is illuminated by two gabled dormers on the left side and a 2-light casement window in the gable on the right. The ground floor includes four windows, all of which are 2-light casements. The entrance is accentuated by a gabled tiled canopy and features a ledged and boarded door. The timber framing consists of three square panels with straight angle braces, while the cross-wing has two rectangular panels high.
Local climate
The Limes receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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