Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1967. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ancient-hinge-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Top Farmhouse, Upper Admington, CV36 4JL
- OS grid reference
- SP 197 450
- Coordinates
- 52.10372, -1.71308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse built from regularly coursed limestone rubble. It features a steeply pitched hipped roof made of graduated stone slate, with both stone and brick stacks at the ends and an external lateral stack. The building is designed in an L-shape with re-entrant wings.
The exterior has two storeys plus an attic and a four-window range. The entrance, located to the left of the centre, has single-chamfered reveals, a two-light overlight, a plank door, and a 20th-century gabled porch. On the ground floor, there are recessed cross-mullioned windows: one to the left of the entrance and three to the right, two of which are grouped with the entrance. The first floor has similar windows and three original hipped roof dormers, which contain two-light casements—one with small panes, one blocked, and one leaded.
The right return has a four-window range, which is said to have originally been longer. The entrance is again to the left of the centre and features a two-light overlight above a plank door. The windows here have leaded cross-casements, with two on the first floor being blocked and one showing visible iron bars.
At the rear, there is a wing on the left with a projecting end stack that has a renewed shaft and a coped gable. The later wide gabled wing in the centre has a small window with a pegged frame and a segmental-headed window with a brick arch over a leaded cross-casement. There are two windows on the first floor with two-light casements. The gabled wing on the right end has a forward break to the right of a brick lean-to porch that was once the entrance, along with windows that have timber lintels.
On the left return, there is a single-storey hipped wing with a garage door at the rear. To the left, there is an entrance with a plank door and a window on each floor, the first-floor window featuring weatherboarding over a leaded casement and a board painted with the words "CHEESE ROOM." To the right, there is a large external lateral stack with a renewed shaft, and the entrance at the right end has a timber lintel above a studded plank door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Top 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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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