The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1985. Farmhouse, house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-chapel-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse, house
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, Pipewell, Kettering, Rushton, NN14 1QZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 839 856
- Coordinates
- 52.46254, -0.76547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building located in Wilbarston, originally shown as Home Farm on the Ordnance Survey map. This farmhouse, now a house, likely dates from the mid-18th century and was remodeled in the mid-19th century for the Pipewell Hall estate. It features a limestone ashlar exterior with a patterned slate roof and has an L-shaped plan across two storeys.
The main front has a four-window range with 19th-century lozenge panes and cast iron glazing bars set under shallow stone arches on the first floor, while the ground floor has 20th-century casements. The two leftmost windows are in their original openings and have gauged stone heads. A 19th-century panelled door is located to the left of centre and is sheltered by a wooden gabled porch. The building has brick and stone stacks with diagonal flues at the ridge and end.
The left side elevation features windows with cast iron glazing bars. Inside, the room to the left contains an open fireplace with a bressumer. The Old Farmhouse is part of a group of houses that were upgraded by the Pipewell Hall estate in the early 19th century.
Local climate
The Old Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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