Northbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. Manor house. 6 related planning applications.

Northbury Farmhouse

WRENN ID
western-attic-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1952
Type
Manor house
Address
Northbury Farmhouse, Castle End Road, Ruscombe, RG10 9XJ
OS grid reference
SU 797 767
Coordinates
51.4837, -0.85308
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Northbury Farmhouse is a manor house, later adapted into a large house, dating to the late 16th century. It was altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is timber-framed with brick infilling and has an old tile gabled roof with a chimney located to the south of the centre. The building follows an H-plan, featuring three framed bay crosswings on either side of a central hall, which has been floored over. A single-storey extension was added to the rear in the 20th century. The east front has one framed gabled projection on either side of the central gable. Each flanking gable has one irregular bay of 20th-century leaded casement windows. The central gable has two bays of similar casement windows on each side of a central timber frame post, and an upper two-light casement window is situated between the central gable and the right-hand projection. The ground floor features a 20th-century enclosed lean-to porch tiled roof, with three bays of three-light leaded casement windows extending across the width between the projections, and an entrance opening at each end.

Local climate

Northbury Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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