Asylum Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Farmhouse.

Asylum Farmhouse

WRENN ID
waiting-bastion-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rugby
Constituency
Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Asylum Farmhouse, Stretton-On-Dunsmore
OS grid reference
SP 411 717
Coordinates
52.34184, -1.39703
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Asylum Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the early to mid-19th century, with a later addition on the left side. It is constructed of Flemish stretcher bond brick and features a black brick dog-tooth cornice. The roof is covered with late 20th-century concrete tiles, and there are brick stacks at the right end and rear, with an additional stack in the left corner of the new section. The building has a central staircase plan and stands three storeys tall with a three-window range. The addition is one storey with an attic and consists of one bay.

The front of the farmhouse is regular, featuring a half-glazed four-panelled door to the left of the centre. The ground floor has mid to late 19th-century wood mullioned and transomed three-light windows, while the first floor is fitted with three-light casements, all of which have horizontal glazing bars. The ground and first-floor openings are topped with brick segmental arches. The second floor has two-light casements, mostly with glazing bars. The addition includes a late 20th-century three-light casement window on the ground floor.

The farmhouse is the last remaining structure of the Warwick County Asylum for Juvenile Delinquents, which was established in 1818 and closed between 1868 and 1871.

Local climate

Asylum Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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