The Old Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

The Old Farm House

WRENN ID
rough-spire-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Kesteven
Constituency
Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
The Old Farm House, Bourne Road, Old Somerby
OS grid reference
SK 958 335
Coordinates
52.89104, -0.5761
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Farm House is a farmhouse built in 1644, with 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone and features ashlar quoins, a pantile roof, and a catslide roof at the rear. The building has a short stone ridge stack with a moulded top and a gable end facing the road. The garden front is two storeys high with a garret and consists of four irregular bays. There is an off-centre panelled door with a timber lintel, flanked by sloping buttresses. The front has three 3-light stone mullion windows that were replaced in the 20th century. Above these, there are two more 3-light stone mullion windows and a single light window. The gable end features a plinth and a 4-light stone mullion window on the ground floor, while the first floor and garret have 17th-century 2-light cavetto mullion windows with cornices. Inside, the farmhouse has a Stamford marble flagged floor and an oak girder in the hall, which has a chamfered and cyma stopped design running the full length of the room, supported by two modern props. Below the first-floor gable window, there is a datestone inscribed with the year "1644" in raised numerals, accompanied by a carved chalice in relief.

Local climate

The Old Farm House 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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