Thorns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Thorns Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- narrow-tin-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Thorns Farmhouse, Scredington Road, Aswarby and Swarby, NG34 8SG
- OS grid reference
- TF 081 404
- Coordinates
- 52.95092, -0.39248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorns Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1852 for the Whichcote family of Aswarby Park. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. It has two gable stacks with moulded and dentillated ashlar cornices, as well as a single plain gable stack on the rear range. The farmhouse is designed in an L-plan and has a two-storey, three-bay front. The middle bay is slightly advanced and includes an open pediment with a dentillated eaves cornice.
The central entrance consists of glazed double doors adorned with bordered stained glass lights and a stained glass fanlight, all set within a semi-circular arched surround that has plain ashlar impost and key blocks. On either side of the entrance are single glazing bar sash windows. The first floor features three similar windows, all of which have cambered brick heads and flush splayed ashlar lintels. In the central gable, there is an ashlar plaque displaying the date 1852 in raised letters.
Local climate
Thorns 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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