North Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
North Farm House
- WRENN ID
- pale-plinth-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- North Farm House, Shipton, GL54 4JQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 040 189
- Coordinates
- 51.86884, -1.94287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Farm House is a former farmhouse with origins dating from the early to mid-17th century, with later additions in the late 17th to early 18th century, mid-18th century, and 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed, squared, and dressed limestone, along with roughly coursed limestone rubble, and features a stone slate roof. It has a 'U'-shaped plan, consisting of a two-bay early core with a through passage at the center, indicated by the position of the porch. To the right, there is an early 18th-century single bay extension, and a mid-18th-century extension at the rear right, which may have reused the foundations of a 16th-century building. A 19th-century extension is located to the left of the main body.
The main part of the house is 1½ storeys high and has four gable dormers facing the garden. Most of the windows are 20th-century steel casements with two or three lights. There is a canted 19th-century bay window at the lower right and a single fire window to the left of the bay. The entrance features a 19th-century four-panelled door set within a late 19th to early 20th-century gabled limestone porch. The two-storey single bay extension to the right has two 20th-century three-light steel casements and a stopped hood over the ground floor casement. A three-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window is found in the basement of the mid-18th-century rear extension, which may also be reused. The main body has axial stacks, while the extension to the right has a gable end stack. The gable ends feature flat coping and roll saddles at the apexes.
Inside the early core, there are intersecting beams with deep chamfers and beaded decoration, as well as an open fireplace with a bressumer in the room that has the canted bay. The room to the left of the cross passage contains tie beams with moulded barred stops.
Local climate
North Farm House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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