Porters Lodge Farmhouse and Yard is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Porters Lodge Farmhouse and Yard
- WRENN ID
- dark-wattle-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Porters Lodge Farmhouse and Yard, Morkery Lane, North Witham, NG33 4SR
- OS grid reference
- SK 958 195
- Coordinates
- 52.76485, -0.58106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porters Lodge Farmhouse and Yard is a late 18th-century farmhouse and farmyard located on Morkery Lane in North Witham. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features pantile roofs with red brick gable stacks. It has a three-sided courtyard plan and is two storeys high with three bays, forming an L-shape. The central entrance consists of a planked door, with a two-light casement window to the left and a larger two-light casement window to the right, all set under timber lintels. The first floor has glazing bar casements located at the eaves. Attached to the left is a lower single-storey range that connects to a taller barn at right angles, which has a single planked door. Beyond this is a single-storey stable block featuring a planked doorway and open wagon sheds on the third side of the yard.
Local climate
Porters Lodge Farmhouse and Yard 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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