Slacks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.
Slacks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-latch-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Slacks Farmhouse, Low Road, Besthorpe, NG23 7HJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 825 647
- Coordinates
- 53.1739, -0.76645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slack's Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of coursed blue lias rubble and brick, topped with a steeply pitched pantile roof, featuring coped gables, a single ridge stack, and a single wall stack, along with two brick bands on the gables. The building is two storeys high with garrets and has an L-shaped plan.
The east front includes a gabled 16th-century rubble porch situated in the included angle, flanked by a single 20th-century two-light glazing bar casement. Above the porch, there is a single top-hung ventilator and a three-light glazing bar casement, all featuring segmental heads. The south gable has a single 20th-century two-light glazing bar casement on each floor, both with segmental heads, and above these is another two-light glazing bar casement. Inside, the farmhouse retains its original roof structure and gypsum floors.
Local climate
Slacks Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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 — 3 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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