Willow Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1988. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Willow Brook Farmhouse

WRENN ID
half-truss-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Willow Brook Farmhouse, Oundle Road, Woodnewton, PE8 5EG
OS grid reference
TL 037 941
Coordinates
52.53562, -0.47192
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Brook Farmhouse is a late 17th and early 18th century building, with later 19th-century alterations. Originally a three-room farmhouse, it is constructed of regular coursed limestone and lias, with thatch and pantile roofing. The front elevation has four 19th-century casement windows under wooden lintels. A ribbed wooden door, also under a wooden lintel, is positioned to the left and features a rectangular fanlight. A shallow buttress with ashlar coping is visible at the left corner. Brick stacks rise from the ridge and end of the roof. The rear elevation mirrors the front, with a two-light stone mullion window providing access to the cellar, and a leaded casement window on the first floor to the right. A single-storey extension to the left, added in the 19th century, is roofed with pantiles. Inside, the room to the left of the entrance has an open fireplace with a bressumer. The entrance hall contains an arch-headed wall cupboard with panelled doors and reeded pilasters, plus two winder staircases. Tie beams are visible on the first floor. The building was formerly used as the Hare and Hounds Public House.

Local climate

Willow Brook Farmhouse 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 — 1 transaction since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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