Home Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 11 related planning applications.
Home Farm House
- WRENN ID
- first-cornice-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Home Farm House, High Street, Colsterworth, NG33 5HZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 929 238
- Coordinates
- 52.80427, -0.62206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Farm House is a farmhouse, originally also an inn, dating to 1650, with significant work in 1778, and further alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is built of coursed and squared limestone rubble, with ashlar quoins and dressings. The roof is pantile, with raised stone coped gables, kneelers and rolled ridges. There are three stacks – two gable and one axial – constructed with moulded ashlar, featuring pairs of shafts and cornices; a further ridge stack has a brick shaft. The building is in a roughly L-shaped layout.
The two-storey front has an irregular three-bay arrangement. The left-hand part of the facade is constructed of squared rubble and has a separate gable, featuring an inscribed datestone reading "TT 1778". The 17th century two-bay right-hand range is in coursed rubble. A large 19th century gabled porch with a half-glazed door sits to the right, alongside an adjacent rectangular bay window and a plain sash window with a segmental head and keystone. Above, on the first floor, is a plain sash window and a pair of plain sashes set under timber lintels. A datestone inscribed "HVM 1650" is set into the right-hand gable. The 18th century rear wing incorporates a 20th century lean-to porch flanked by single plain sash windows. Three similar windows are on the first floor of the rear wing, all with cambered stone lintels and keystones, and the roof has a pair of gabled dormers with 20th century top-hung windows.
The ground floor interior features a 17th century moulded beam, some 18th century dado panelling, and a cupboard with a semi-circular head. The first floor has early 18th century full-height panelling with a cornice. The 18th century wing has a moulded plaster cornice and beams. The 17th century roof structure is of pegged oak, with alternate staggered butt purlins and clasped purlins; the 18th century roof similarly exhibits staggered butt purlin construction.
Local climate
Home Farm House 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 79% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- 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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