Southfield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1980. Farmhouse.

Southfield Farmhouse

WRENN ID
idle-basalt-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1980
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Southfield Farmhouse, Polewell Lane, Barton Seagrave
OS grid reference
SP 886 757
Coordinates
52.37261, -0.69926
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Southfield Farmhouse is an 18th-century house located on Polewell Lane in Barton Seagrave. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with dressed quoins. The farmhouse features a steeply pitched new tile roof with stone coping at the gable ends and stone coved eaves. The building has two storeys and an attic, with two sash windows that include glazing bars and stone heads. There is a blocked central door and two hipped dormers. The ends of the house have brick stacks, one of which has a stone cornice while the other is heightened. At the rear, there is 18th-century stone coping that forms an L-plan.

Local climate

Southfield 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 84% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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