Decoy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. House.
Decoy Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vast-steel-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- Peterborough MP: Andrew Pakes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Decoy Farmhouse, Decoy Road, Borough Fen, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TF 197 081
- Coordinates
- 52.65815, -0.23164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Decoy Farmhouse is a late 18th-century brick house that has been roughcast rendered. It features a thatched roof with coped gable ends and stands two storeys tall. The house has a three-window range, with modern casements, except for the first-floor center window, which is a 19th-century two-light gothic casement. There are two modern canted bay windows on the ground floor. The central doorway has a rectangular fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, a glazed door, and an iron trellis porch. The house has end stacks and a gabled wing at the rear, which has a thatched roof, creating an L-shaped plan. The Victoria County History of Northamptonshire, Volume II, notes that Decoy Farm was owned for many years by a family named Williams and mentions an old wild fowl decoy located about 350 yards to the southeast.
Local climate
Decoy 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 88% 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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