Village Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. A C16 Farmhouse.
Village Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-soffit-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Village Farmhouse, Peterborough Road, Castor, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 120 986
- Coordinates
- 52.57433, -0.3479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Village Farmhouse is a building that likely dates from the 15th or 16th century, with alterations made in the 16th or 17th century. It is constructed from coursed stone rubble and features a Collyweston stone roof. The house is H-shaped in plan, with gabled wings that have stone coping; the left gable includes an apex stone and kneelers. The building has two storeys and is arranged in a 1:3:1 bay configuration. It has one and three-light casements with glazing bars, and an off-centre glazed door. There are two brick ridge stacks positioned over the centre of the house. On the east side, there is a depressed chamfered arch doorway with a small cusped window above it. Inside, the passage features a stone ogee arch, while the east wing has moulded ceiling beams. The central room contains a stopped and chamfered ceiling beam.
Local climate
Village 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
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