Fox Covert Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. House.
Fox Covert Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-portal-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fox Covert Farmhouse, Mill Road, Maxey, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TF 128 086
- Coordinates
- 52.66401, -0.3329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Covert Farmhouse is an 18th-century house located at right angles to Maxey Mill Road. It is constructed of coursed stone and features a steeply pitched Collyweston stone roof with gabled ends. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. The ground floor and the center first-floor windows are three-light casements, while the windows have wooden lintels. There is a plain central doorway that includes a keyblock. The farmhouse has end brick chimney stacks and a single-storey wing at the rear that runs parallel to the road, also made of stone and topped with a Collyweston stone roof.
Local climate
Fox Covert Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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