Bleak House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Farmhouse, house.
Bleak House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-mantel-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse, house
- Address
- Bleak House, 31, Griffin Road, Braybrooke
- OS grid reference
- SP 764 842
- Coordinates
- 52.45094, -0.87636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bleak House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the mid 17th century. It was repaired in 1741 and has a late 19th-century addition. The building is constructed from coursed squared ironstone with limestone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. It has coped gables with kneelers and a single central coped quadruple stone stack. The house is two storeys plus attics and has three bays with a baffle entry plan.
The south front features a central plain stone doorcase with a 20th-century glazed door, flanked by single three-light casements. Above the door, there is a small central casement and to its right, a coped datestone inscribed 'Rep'd 1741 - J H'. There are three-light casements on each side of the datestone. Each gable has a central three-light casement on both floors and a similar two-light casement in the attic. The rear of the house has two two-light casements above. There is also a two-storey brick addition from the 19th century to the west. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bleak House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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