The Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
The Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- secret-vestry-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Farmhouse, Blatherwyke Road, Bulwick, NN17 3EU
- OS grid reference
- SP 965 941
- Coordinates
- 52.53648, -0.5783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Farmhouse, now a house, dates back to 1626, with substantial rebuilding and extensions in the 19th century. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone and brick, with a slate roof, and follows a T-shaped plan. The main front has three windows and a gabled cross-wing projecting to the right. The cross-wing section is original from the 17th century. A 19th-century canted wooden bay window sits on the ground floor of the cross-wing, and a 19th-century casement window is set within a 17th-century moulded stone surround on the first floor. An original 17th-century two-light stone mullion window, with ovolo mouldings and hood moulds, is located in the attic. The left return of the cross-wing features a single-light window on the ground floor, now blocked, set in a 17th-century moulded stone surround, with a similar two-light stone mullion window above. The three-window range to the left is from the 19th century, featuring casement windows beneath stone lintels with keyblocks. A datestone is visible at the apex of the gable. Brick stacks are present at the ridge and at the gable apex. The right-hand elevation has three windows arranged irregularly and featuring 20th-century casements under renewed wooden lintels. A gabled porch with bargeboards, dating from the 19th century, is situated on the right side. 19th-century extensions are present to the rear, and a section of the rear wall of the 19th-century range is constructed of brick. Inside, a room on the first floor of the cross-wing has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A corner of the property incorporates an earlier structure.
Local climate
The Farmhouse 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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 — 8 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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