The Hunt House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. A C19 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Hunt House
- WRENN ID
- calm-gateway-ivy
- 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
- The Hunt House, High Street, Paulerspury
- OS grid reference
- SP 720 455
- Coordinates
- 52.10353, -0.94945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hunt House is a farmhouse that has been converted into offices, dating from around 1840. It is constructed from limestone ashlar with ironstone dressings and features a hipped slate roof with brick stacks inside. The building has a double-depth plan and is three stories tall with a three-window range. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with an ornamental overlight, framed by a stone surround with Ionic pilasters that support an entablature. The windows are 16-pane sash style, each with ironstone sills, jambs, and flat-arched heads. The exterior also showcases chamfered quoins and bracketed eaves. To the left, there is a two-storey wing, and a 20th-century extension has been added to the rear. Inside, there is an open-well staircase that runs from the ground to the second floor, featuring stick balusters, carved tread ends, and a ramped mahogany handrail. The Hunt House was formerly the headquarters of the Grafton Hunt and is part of a group of estate buildings built for the Duke of Grafton. It currently serves as the home of the Henry Royce Foundation.
Local climate
The Hunt House 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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