Poplar Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Poplar Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- empty-quoin-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Poplar Farmhouse, High Street, Swinderby, LN6 9LW
- OS grid reference
- SK 868 627
- Coordinates
- 53.15445, -0.70271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poplar Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse located on High Street in Swinderby. The building is constructed of brick featuring white headers and red stretches, topped with a slate ridge roof that has two gable stacks. It has a three-bay, two-storey design and is double fronted. The entrance consists of a 20th-century glazed door with a rectangular overlight. To the east, there is a single plain sash window and a large 20th-century window. Above, there are three plain sashes, all set under segmental brick arches. Attached to the east is a lower two-bay, two-storey cottage that features a single segment-headed door and a two-light segment-headed casement window, with a single two-light casement above it, which has a wooden lintel.
Local climate
Poplar Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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