South Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1961. Farmhouse.
South Farm
- WRENN ID
- vacant-quoin-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- South Farm, Averham Park Lane
- OS grid reference
- SK 743 564
- Coordinates
- 53.09969, -0.89134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Farm is a farmhouse that was originally the service wing of Averham Park, built around 1720. It features significant additions from the 19th and 20th centuries on the south and west sides. The building was commissioned by Robert Sutton, Lord Lexington. Constructed from brick, it has hipped and gabled roofs covered with pantiles and plain tiles. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a C-plan layout with six bays.
The main north front displays six glazing bar sash windows, which are 20th century, and above these are six oval openings with keystones, flanked by single blank panels. The east end includes a 19th-century addition on the left, which has two 20th-century flat-roofed extensions. To the left, there is a casement window flanked by single French doors, and to the right, a glazing bar sash with a segmental head. Above, on the left, there are four casement windows and a glazed door, while to the right, there is another glazing bar sash.
A 20th-century addition on the west side is two storeys high and has two bays, but it is not of special interest. Inside, there are remains of a softwood roof with tenoned purlins. The cellar at the east end was formerly connected by a tunnel to Averham Park.
Local climate
South Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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