Castle Farm with Attached Farmyard Wall and Outbuildings is a Grade II* listed building in the Bassetlaw local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. Farmhouse.

Castle Farm with Attached Farmyard Wall and Outbuildings

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bassetlaw
Constituency
Bassetlaw MP: Jo White (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 February 1967
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
SK 575 771
Coordinates
53.28778, -1.13799
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castle Farm, built in 1758, is a farmhouse and garden folly that is reputedly designed by the Duchess of Norfolk with assistance from James Paine in the Gothic style. The structure features coursed rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It has quoins, an ashlar plinth, a plain ground floor band, and a moulded first floor band, all topped with coped battlements. The layout is courtyard-style.

The north range includes a central two-storey, five-bay pavilion with a central two-storey canted bay window. The central opening, which was once a doorway, has a Gothic ogee double arch moulded surround with a glazing bar sash. On either side are single similar sashes with moulded ogee heads, and beyond them are single ogee-headed niches. Above this, there are five smaller glazing bar sashes with four-centred arched heads. This pavilion connects to flanking stepped gable pavilions, each featuring a single ogee-headed glazing bar sash and a blank quatrefoil above, all within a large flush pointed arch. These pavilions are further linked by walls to two-storey corner towers, which have single ogee-headed blank openings with quatrefoils above.

The east and west ranges have high boundary walls with central and corner slightly projecting towers. The south range features corner towers and single lean-to cart sheds on either side of the central gateway. Inside the courtyard, there are various 20th-century buildings that are of no interest. The interior of the central pavilion includes a large ground floor banqueting room with ogee-headed windows and door surrounds, a four-centred arch leading into the bay, and a plaster vault ceiling with ornate foliate corbels.

Local climate

Castle Farm with Attached Farmyard Wall and Outbuildings 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 78% 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 37 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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