Top House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1986. A Early C19 Farmhouse.

Top House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
heavy-baluster-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hinckley and Bosworth
Constituency
Hinckley and Bosworth MP: Dr Luke Evans (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 October 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Top House Farmhouse, Dadlington & Sutton Cheney
OS grid reference
SK 388 004
Coordinates
52.6004, -1.42766
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Top House Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed of brick with a hipped plain tiled roof. It is three storeys high and features three bays. The central doorway has a six-panelled door with an overlight and panelled rebates beneath tightly curved console brackets supporting a canopy. The flanking windows are 16-pane sashes with flat arched stuccoed heads that have expressed keystones. Above the door, there is a 12-pane window, and the lower windows serve the attic. The building is finished with a moulded eaves cornice and has gable end stacks.

Local climate

Top House 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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