40 and 42, Westhorpe is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1971. Aisled hall house. 1 related planning application.
40 and 42, Westhorpe
- WRENN ID
- watchful-roof-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- Aisled hall house
- Address
- 40 and 42, Westhorpe, Southwell, NG25 0NG
- OS grid reference
- SK 690 536
- Coordinates
- 53.07581, -0.97068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
40 and 42 Westhorpe is an early 17th-century aisled hall house that has been clad in brick and altered in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Attached to the west side is an early 19th-century cottage, which was rebuilt around 1975 and was formerly numbered 42. The main building is timber framed with brick cladding and features a steeply pitched hipped and gabled pantile roof, complete with a gablet at the south end. It has two gable stacks and a single corner stack, and consists of a single storey plus attics.
The east front has a nearly central blocked doorway that contains a two-light casement. To the right of this doorway is a 20th-century lean-to glazed porch, and to the left is another two-light casement. All these openings have segmental heads. Above the doorway, there is a central two-light cross-eaves dormer. The south end facing the street has a 20th-century casement to the left, and above it, there is a small 18th-century casement and a Yorkshire sash. The north end features a 19th-century single-storey addition.
Inside, the building has three bay posts with arch braces. The southern pair of posts supports a first-floor stud wall with rendered nogging. On the west side, there is an aisle plate and two winder staircases. The central ground floor room has a stop-chamfered spine beam, while the southern room features a chamfered and moulded spine beam along with unusually heavy floor joists.
The rebuilt cottage to the west is constructed of brick with a steeply pitched pantile roof and has a corner stack. It is a single storey plus a garret. The west front has a central close-boarded door and a Yorkshire sash to its right. The gable end facing the street has a single Yorkshire sash on each floor, with the upper one being smaller. The interior of the cottage includes a single purlin roof with collars.
Local climate
40 and 42, Westhorpe sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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