Rectory Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1988. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Rectory Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings
- WRENN ID
- knotted-finial-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rectory Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings, Lower Benefield, PE8 5AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 989 886
- Coordinates
- 52.48658, -0.54447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a farmhouse and attached farm buildings, dating to approximately 1877/8. Constructed of squared coursed limestone with a Collyweston slate roof, the farmhouse follows a double-depth plan. It has two storeys and a three-window front, featuring two-light stone mullion windows; the first-floor windows are topped with gablets. A prominent three-light stone mullion window with a stepped head is centrally located on the first floor. A central gabled porch, with a four-centre arch-head doorway and plank door, provides access. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar stacks are positioned at the ridge and ends. A plaque incorporating cross keys is set into the head of the central first-floor window. The left and right elevations mirror the front, with a projecting window on the ground floor to the left. A two-storey building in a similar style is attached to the rear. To the right is a U-shaped range of farm buildings, including a central barn alongside stables and cartsheds, likely dating to the late 18th/early 19th century. The interior remains uninspected. The building has group value.
Local climate
Rectory Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 8 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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