Langton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. House, cottage.
Langton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grey-terrace-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1989
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Langton Farmhouse, Swingbridge Street, Foxton
- OS grid reference
- SP 701 898
- Coordinates
- 52.50186, -0.96754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Langton Farmhouse is a house with an attached cottage built in 1730. It is constructed of brick and stone, topped with a slate roof featuring a central ridge stack. The building has a chamfered stone plinth and stands two storeys high, with a basement and a garret.
The south front of the farmhouse has two bays. There is an off-centre doorway with a cambered arch leading to a 20th-century part-glazed door. To the right of the doorway is a two-light sliding sash window with a flat arch. Above the door, there is a similar window with a concrete lintel. The west gable wall features an unglazed basement window set in the plinth, which has a wooden lintel and iron bars. Above this, there is a three-light casement window with a cambered arch, followed by another similar window, and a fixed light garret window in a shallow recess, which has a datestone above inscribed with "I T H 1730."
The adjoining cottage on the east gable has a two-bay south front, featuring an off-centre doorway with a wooden lintel and a 20th-century part-glazed door. To the right, there is a three-light sliding sash window with a cambered arch, and above it, there is a similar window. There is also a later lean-to structure attached to the east.
Local climate
Langton Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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