Lonsdale Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1955. House. 3 related planning applications.
Lonsdale Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- odd-chimney-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lonsdale Farmhouse, 6, Main Road, Glaston, LE15 9BP
- OS grid reference
- SK 896 004
- Coordinates
- 52.59403, -0.67787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lonsdale Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 17th century, with later additions from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, forming an L-shaped layout. Small 20th-century lean-to extensions are present along the roadside. The house is constructed with render over rubble stone, with Collyweston slate roofs, coped gables, and ashlar chimneys featuring moulded cornices.
The two-bay west wing has a concealed plaque indicating it was built in 1660. It has an attic and cellar, and retains a lobby entry plan with the floor levels of the west bay raised over the cellar. The south front retains original ground floor windows with three lights, featuring ovolo-moulded limestone mullions and cyma recta cornices. A similar two-light cellar window is also original, and a blocked single-light window with an ovolo-moulded ironstone surround may be an insertion. The first floor has 20th-century wooden casements, and the attic has a 20th-century skylight. A central boarded entrance door retains traces of a former gabled porch. This wing has a central chimney and another to the right with moulded necking. The east wing has flanking chimneys and a hipped roof at the right end.
The east front has three-light windows with limestone surrounds and square mullions, where each light has a beaded edge and a single slender horizontal glazing bar. A central four-panelled door has a marginally-glazed rectangular fanlight and a re-sited cyma recta cornice above.
Inside the 17th-century wing, there is a moulded stone fireplace with a four-centred arch in the southwest corner of the ground floor room, and remains of a similar fireplace in the upper room of the east bay. The ground floor of the east wing has a large fireplace with an ovolo-moulded wooden lintel and a later wooden cornice. Other interior features include stop-chamfered spine beams and old board and two-panel doors.
Local climate
Lonsdale Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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