Priors Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Priors Farmhouse

WRENN ID
worn-gargoyle-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
Peterborough MP: Andrew Pakes (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1952
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Priors Farmhouse, Willow Hall Lane, Thorney, City of Peterborough, PE6 0QN
OS grid reference
TF 248 013
Coordinates
52.59549, -0.15819
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Priors Farmhouse is an 18th-century rendered brick house featuring stone dressings. It has a steeply pitched roof with stone coping at the gable ends, along with stone quoins and window architraves that include keyblocks. The building is two storeys high and consists of five bays, with sash windows that have glazing bars. The central doorway is framed by a shouldered stone architrave and a pediment, and it has a flush panel door with glazed top panels. Inside, there are stone end chimney stacks with cornices.

Local climate

Priors Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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