Village Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding, Barns and Stables South and East is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1985. Farmhouse, barn, stable. 4 related planning applications.
Village Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding, Barns and Stables South and East
- WRENN ID
- low-oriel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn, stable
- Address
- Village Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding, Barns and Stables South and East, Maltings Road, Gretton, NN17 3BZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 898 940
- Coordinates
- 52.53713, -0.67668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a farmhouse and attached outbuildings, barns, and stables, dating from the early and mid-18th century and the 19th century. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone and ironstone, with Welsh and Collyweston slate and corrugated asbestos roofs. The house is L-shaped. The main front is asymmetrical with a three-window range. A six-panel door, positioned to the left of centre, has a 19th-century moulded stone surround with a bracketed cornice and a pediment over a fanlight featuring radiating glazing bars. Sash windows with glazing bars are set within similar stone surrounds, although there is evidence of re-fenestration to the first floor on the right side. Ashlar gable parapets, kneelers, and ashlar stacks are at the ends of the building. A range of early 18th-century stables and barns is attached to the left of the main front by a roofed carriage arch with a 19th-century slate roof, entered via plan doors under a wooden lintel. The road-facing elevation of the stables, with haylofts above, has two blocked door openings with hayloft doors positioned above. A corrugated asbestos roof covers this section. A similar range extends at right angles to the rear, forming two sides of a courtyard. The courtyard elevation has several stable doors under wooden lintels. A building attached to the rear of the farmhouse was likely a granary, featuring a Welsh slate roof. An external brick stair with plank doors under a wooden lintel leads to the head and ground floor of the granary. The interiors were not inspected, but it was noted that the house contains some panelling, and the barns retain remnants of their original roof structures.
Local climate
Village Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding, Barns and Stables South and East sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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