College Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1983. House.
College Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ghost-column-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- College Farmhouse, Lower End, Thornborough
- OS grid reference
- SP 739 338
- Coordinates
- 51.99824, -0.92482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farmhouse is a small house dating from the 18th century, with alterations. It has a T-plan layout and is constructed from whitewashed rubble stone, with a timber-framed section on the right. The house features a thatched roof and stands one-and-a-half storeys tall. The front is irregular, showcasing modern 3-light leaded casements on the stone section. To the left, there is a projecting gabled bay with one upper casement, and to the right of the stone section, there is a modern door beneath a thatch hood. The timber-framed section includes one single casement and two paired casements on the ground floor, along with a 5-light casement on the first floor.
Local climate
College Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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