Springhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. House.
Springhill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-jade-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Springhill Farmhouse, Brington and Molesworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 074 759
- Coordinates
- 52.37067, -0.42328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Springhill Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dated 1629 on the mantel beam above the hearth. It has undergone alterations and additions in the late 18th century, early 19th century, and further changes in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring some original pargetting on the rear elevation, and is finished in painted brick. The main range has a Collyweston slate roof, while other sections have slated and plain tiled roofs.
The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and originally had a three-unit lobby entry plan, which was partly demolished in the 19th century to make way for a two-storey addition to the southeast and 20th-century rear outshuts. The main entrance is located on the right side and features a six-panelled door, while the former entrance by the stack has been blocked. To the left, there is a canted bay window with hung sashes, accompanied by two sixteen-paned hung sash windows. The first floor includes one 17th-century leaded light window, which is similar to a window on the rear elevation, and there are also two sixteen-paned and two twelve-paned hung sash windows. The house has two gabled dormer windows with casements.
Notable interior features include a boxed staircase leading to the attic floor, two back-to-back open hearths with baking ovens—one of which has a moulded mantel beam—and a central room with a dated beam and carved roundels that are repeated on the moulded ceiling beams. There is also a sealed three-light ovolo moulded attic window. A fine 17th-century boarded door with a scored geometric pattern and original fleur de lis hinges can be found on the rear elevation.
Local climate
Springhill Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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