Top Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1972. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Top Farm

WRENN ID
graven-wattle-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1972
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Top Farm, 10, High Street, Great Doddington, NN29 7TQ
OS grid reference
SP 883 649
Coordinates
52.27548, -0.70582
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Top Farm is a farmhouse that may have origins dating back to the 14th century, with datestones marking the years 1588, 1764, and 1888. The building features regular coursed lias and ironstone, topped with an asbestos tile and pantile roof, and has a T-shaped plan. It stands two storeys high, with the entrance front displaying a three-window range of casements that have glazing bars and are set under wooden lintels. The central entrance consists of a 19th-century four-panel door beneath a wood lintel, accompanied by a 19th-century wooden porch.

To the left, there is a projecting wing that likely dates from the early 18th century, featuring two leaded casements on the first floor of its gable end. The return wall of this wing includes a 19th-century canted wooden bay with a stone base, also fitted with leaded casements. The building is adorned with ashlar gable parapets and kneelers, as well as brick and ashlar stacks located at the ridge and ends; notably, the stack on the left gable is octagonal. Above the door, the datestones are likely reset, with an illegible tablet on the left gable. The right gable retains remnants of a 14th-century two-light window.

At the rear, an early 19th-century wing features leaded casements and a stone flight of steps leading to a door on the first floor. Inside, the first-floor room in the projecting wing showcases 17th-century panelling with a decorated frieze, which is probably reset.

Local climate

Top Farm 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 86% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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