Limes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Limes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-floor-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Limes Farmhouse, Wakerley Road, Harringworth, NN17 3AH
- OS grid reference
- SP 918 973
- Coordinates
- 52.56639, -0.64569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Limes Farmhouse, now a house, was likely built in the late 17th century and probably altered in the 19th century. Constructed from finely squared coursed limestone with lias dressings, it has a Welsh slate roof and an L-shaped plan. The main front has two storeys and an attic. The front façade features a symmetrical three-window arrangement with three-light stone mullion windows, each with a hood mould. The gable parapets are finished with ashlar kneelers, and there is a central brick and stone stack on the ridge. The rear elevation and a rear wing have stone mullion windows similar to those on the front, along with 19th-century style casement windows set under wooden lintels. The main entrance is located in the rear wing. Inside, a room to the right of the main front retains evidence of an open fireplace with a bressumer, while the kitchen has a later fireplace with a bread oven. Notable interior features include stop-chamfered spine beams, 17th-century stud framed partitions, and a roof structure featuring two tiers of butt purlins, with the rear range displaying convex wind braces.
Local climate
Limes Farmhouse 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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