Middle Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1988. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Middle Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- ancient-obsidian-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Middle Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding, Upper Benefield, PE8 5AN
- OS grid reference
- SP 979 892
- Coordinates
- 52.49281, -0.55928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Middle Farmhouse and attached outbuilding is a farmhouse dating to the late 18th century and the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate and 20th-century plain-tile roofs. The original plan was likely three units. The front has two storeys and a three-window front of 20th-century casements with glazing bars, set in original openings and beneath gauged stone heads. A sash window with glazing bars is located on the ground floor to the right, also under a similar head. The front door is a six-panelled, part-glazed design with a stone gabled porch to the left of centre. There are three dormers in the roof. Ashlar stacks are located at the ridge and ends. An attached, two-storey stable, with a hayloft now used as an outbuilding, was built in the mid-19th century. A central first-floor doorway on the outbuilding has a flight of stone steps leading up to it. Two projecting wings to the rear, dating from the late 18th to mid-19th century, are two storeys high, with two casement openings at the first floor under wooden lintels. Inside the house, there’s an early 19th-century staircase with a stick balustrade. A room to the left of the entrance has an open fireplace with a bressumer. The room to the right was remodelled in the early 19th century, featuring a marble fireplace and arch-head niches.
Local climate
Middle Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding 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 — 6 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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