Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1988. Farmhouse.
Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vacant-garret-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Top Farmhouse, Blatherwyke Road, Bulwick
- OS grid reference
- SP 964 940
- Coordinates
- 52.5359, -0.57895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century and 19th century. It features regular coursed limestone with a thatch and corrugated asbestos roof. Originally built with a three-unit plan, it has been altered to an L-shape. The building is two storeys high, with the main front displaying a four-window range of 19th-century casements set under wooden lintels. The window to the left of the centre was likely originally a door. There is evidence of the roof being raised between the first-floor windows. The right gable has an ashlar parapet and an ashlar end stack with moulded cornices, while the left end has a brick stack. The rear elevation includes three first-floor casement windows beneath shallow eyebrow dormers. There are 19th and 20th-century extensions at the rear, also with a corrugated asbestos roof. Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted to have open fireplaces.
Local climate
Top 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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