The Dukes Arms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Dukes Arms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-pediment-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Dukes Arms Farmhouse, Grafton Underwood, NN14 3AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 804
- Coordinates
- 52.41434, -0.64355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dukes Arms Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, with alterations, located in Grafton Underwood. The date 1645 is recorded. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with some brickwork, and has a thatched roof. A moulded stone ridge stack sits at the centre, and there are stone and brick endstacks. The stack to the right is particularly notable, featuring brick shafts on a slightly projecting stone chimney with three set-offs and a diamond-shaped datestone in the upper part.
The building is two stories high. A lean-to addition to the left of centre has a 20th-century door and window set within brick infill. To the left of the lean-to is a single bay with a 20th-century ground floor window and a two-light eyebrow dormer above. To the right of the lean-to, the facade displays symmetrical arrangement: a central 20th-century door with ashlar jambs and a wooden lintel, flanked by three-light 20th-century casement windows on either side at ground floor level. The first floor mirrors the ground floor, with similar windows flanking a single-light window. All openings have flush stone surrounds, although the windows retain wooden lintels. A one-story gabled wing extends to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Dukes Arms Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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