Freemantle Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Freemantle Farm
- WRENN ID
- eternal-hammer-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Freemantle Farm, Houghton, SO20 6LH
- OS grid reference
- SU 343 326
- Coordinates
- 51.09217, -1.511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Freewantle Farm is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with extensions added in the 18th century. The house is timber-framed and originally appeared as such, though it was later covered with brick and plaster, and now has a thatched roof. It has three bays, including a passage/stack bay and a bay added to the left in the 18th century, presenting as a one-and-a-half-storey structure. The front features a 6-panel door set within a narrow bay on the right, accessed via an open-gabled timber porch. To either side of the door are 3-light casement windows dating from the 19th century, with a segmental head. Above these is an 18th-century 3-light casement set in an eyebrow dormer. The second bay from the left has two 20th-century 3-light windows, the upper one within an eyebrow dormer. The added portion of the house is blank. The roof is hipped and slopes downwards to the left, with a ridge piece; a large, 3-flued stack is positioned above and to the left of the door, and another stack is located on the left hip at the end of the original building.
Local climate
Freemantle Farm receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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