Breach Oak Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Warwickshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1988. Farmhouse.

Breach Oak Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ragged-sill-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Warwickshire
Constituency
North Warwickshire and Bedworth MP: Rachel Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Breach Oak Farmhouse, Breach Oak Lane, Astley
OS grid reference
SP 309 872
Coordinates
52.48192, -1.546
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Breach Oak Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with brick infill and some rebuilding in 19th-century brick at the rear. The roof is covered with plain tiles.

On the left side, there is a large sandstone external stack with two star-shaped shafts made of thin bricks, and a large central brick ridge stack that has two rows of two arched panels. The building is L-shaped with a large wing on the left and has two storeys plus an attic, with a total of four windows across the front.

There is a 19th-century ribbed door located in the angle of the L, and an open porch with a plain-tile hipped roof. A similar door on the right features a brick segmental arch. The windows are irregularly placed, with three-light casements that have horizontal glazing bars on the left side. The first floor includes an old two-light lead-latticed casement, along with 19th and 20th-century two-light casements. The long wing has some of its framing replaced with brick, and there is a 20th-century wood mullioned and transomed four-light window on the ground floor. The first floor and attic have 20th-century three-light casements, while the two-light casements have leaded lights.

The left return side and rear of the farmhouse are largely rebuilt in brick. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Breach Oak Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 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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