Home Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. Farmhouse, cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Home Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-truss-swallow
- 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
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Home Farmhouse, 35, Main Street, Smeeton Westerby, LE8 0QJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 679 928
- Coordinates
- 52.52946, -0.99984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Farmhouse is a farmhouse with attached former cottage, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick.
The building has an L-shaped plan with a two-unit central hall and stairway range running parallel to the street, and a kitchen wing extending to the rear. The house is roofed with 20th-century concrete tiles and has gable stacks. The cottage is roofed with Swithland slate and has a gable stack.
The east front faces onto the street and rises two storeys with three bays. A central doorway features a flat hood supported on brackets and has a four-panel door with glazed overlight. This doorway is flanked by single three-light casements. Above are three further three-light casements. All openings are topped with cambered arches. To the left is a single bay two-storey cottage with a lower roofline, featuring single three-light casements on each storey matching those of the main house. The south gable wall has a first-floor brick band, a small casement in the rear outshut, and a two-light casement above in the attic.
Internally, the building retains some panelled doors in their original surrounds. The kitchen contains chamfered and stopped ceiling beams. A detached former barn stands to the rear, which has been altered in the late 20th century and is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Home 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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