Fern Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. House.
Fern Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- second-postern-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fern Farmhouse, 8, West Street, Osbournby
- OS grid reference
- TF 066 380
- Coordinates
- 52.92944, -0.41411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Farmhouse is a house, gate, and railings dating from the early 18th century, with elements from 1775 and the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins. The roof is made of pantiles with raised stone coped gables and two brick gable stacks. The building is two storeys plus a garret and has a three-bay front. The first floor has a moulded stone band and a central six-panel door with a plain overlight, flanked by single plain sash windows. The first floor also features three similar windows. All openings have splayed ashlar lintels with keyblocks. On the right-hand quoin, there is an inscription that reads 'Rob. Bradley, 1775'. To the left, there is a projecting service bay with a steeply pitched roof, which contains a single plain sash window with a timber lintel in the gable. In front of the house, there is a low wrought iron screen of railings with spearhead finials and a gate with curvilinear rails.
Local climate
Fern Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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