Home Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 January 1968. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Home Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- tenth-grate-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 January 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Home Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding, 1, Wartnaby Road, Ab Kettleby, LE14 3JJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 725 231
- Coordinates
- 52.80064, -0.925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 17th century with possible older origins, has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings and features thatch and slate roofs, along with brick end and ridge stacks. The building has a three-unit plan and is one storey with an attic, presenting a two-window range.
The central feature is a two-storey canted bay window that becomes a dormer above the eaves. Originally, it had hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows, with three lights at the front and single lights on the sides, all adorned with hood moulds. One stone mullion remains in the dormer window, while the others have been replaced with wooden mullions for casement windows. The bay window is topped with a stone-coped gable supported by corbelled kneelers.
To the left of the bay, there is a four-panel door framed by a hollow and wave-moulded limestone surround, with a footscraper niche to the right. The ground floor includes a two-light casement window to the right with a stone lintel and another two-light casement window at the far left, which has a 19th-century segmental-arched brick lintel. Above, a similar window on the first floor has been raised in red brick and has a slate roof. The right side elevation features a four-light stone mullion window on the ground floor, although one light is blocked in brick.
Attached to the farmhouse is a single-storey outbuilding, built of coursed squared ironstone with a pantile roof, which has been extended by one bay in brick. Inside the farmhouse, there is one full cruck truss with a collar and saddle, a tier of purlins in the roof, one wind brace, and a ridge piece. The ground floor showcases chamfered spine beams, one of which has broach stops, and an open fireplace with a cambered stop-chamfered bressumer. The dining room features a 19th-century chimneypiece made of Derbyshire fossiliferous marble.
Local climate
Home Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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