College Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. A C18 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
College Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to Rear
- WRENN ID
- fading-banister-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- College Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to Rear, Woodend, NN12 8RY
- OS grid reference
- SP 614 493
- Coordinates
- 52.13934, -1.10359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse constructed of limestone ashlar with ironstone dressings, featuring a 20th-century plain-tile roof and a stone internal stack with four square flues. The building has a chamfered plinth and a moulded cap, following a two-unit lobby-entry plan. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range. The central entrance consists of an eight-panel door framed by a fine moulded stone surround, a plain frieze, a moulded cornice, and a broken segmental pediment topped with a ball finial, accessed by three moulded stone steps.
On either side of the entrance, there are three-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, with wood lintels. Above the door, there is a two-light casement window with a moulded stone sill and surround. The building features a chamfered plinth, a two-light flat-faced stone mullion cellar window to the right, chamfered quoins, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. To the left, there is a 19th-century two-storey extension with a single-window and a brick end stack. The rear of the house includes two-light stone mullion windows with moulded sills and surrounds, some of which are blocked.
At the rear left, there is an attached two-bay outbuilding, likely built around the same time as the farmhouse. This outbuilding has a horizontal oval window with a stone surround on the rear gable and a stone-coped gable with kneelers at the other end, topped with a slate roof.
Inside, the farmhouse features back-to-back open fireplaces, one with a stop-chamfered bressumer and the other blocked. The interior also includes ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, a fitted cupboard with shaped shelves, a reset staircase with original turned balusters, and a bolection-moulded stone fireplace surround in the upper room, which is adorned with Dutch tiles around a late 18th-century cast-iron grate.
Local climate
College Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to Rear sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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