Rectory Farmhouse and Barn is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Farmhouse, barn.
Rectory Farmhouse and Barn
- WRENN ID
- calm-tracery-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Rectory Farmhouse and Barn, School Lane, Eydon
- OS grid reference
- SP 541 500
- Coordinates
- 52.14614, -1.20989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises a farmhouse and barn, dating back to the 17th century with remodelling in the 19th century, and incorporating a wing from the 15th or 16th century. The house is built of coursed ironstone rubble, with an artificial stone slate roof, and has brick stacks. It presents a T-shaped layout, with two storeys and an attic, spanning three bays. A 20th-century metal casement window is present. Two 2-light windows with wood corbels and 20th-century wood casements are on the right side, with a gabled projection featuring three 2-light windows on the ground floor, also with wood lintels and 20th-century casements. A 4-light stone mullioned window, with a straight moulded hood, is located in the right bay on the first floor. The left and centre bays feature 3-light casement windows with wood lintels, and the right bay has a 2-light stone mullioned attic window. Two gabled dormers are on the left side. A 17th-century single-storey extension to the right, likely originally outbuildings and now part of the house, has a one-light window with a plain stone frame. A wing projecting to the left features coursed ironstone rubble and a tiled roof, with a carriage entrance having a wood lintel and a gabled dormer topped with a clock. The three bays to the right are part of the main house, with a 20th-century doorway with a 6-panel door in the right bay. To the left is a doorway with a wood lintel and a half-glazed door, along with a 2-light window with a wood lintel and an old iron casement. A 20th-century two-light casement window is on the first floor. At the rear, facing the street, is a blocked 15th or 16th-century square-headed window with two arched cusped lights and cut spandrels. A blocked 2-light stone mullioned window is on the first floor of this wing. The barn, situated to the left of the carriage entrance and dating to the 17th century, is constructed of squared coursed ironstone, has a tiled roof, and features a coped gable-end with kneelers. The house interior was remodelled in the 19th century, incorporating a staircase and fireplaces of that period. The roof of the left wing was altered in the 20th century, but remnants of two raised cruck blades are visible, built into 20th-century brickwork in the attic. The barn interior has not been inspected. According to P. Woodfield, the 15th or 16th-century window in the left wing is likely in its original position, surrounded by late medieval walling indicative of an earlier house, which was subsequently relegated to farm outbuildings when the current house was built in the 17th century.
Local climate
Rectory Farmhouse and Barn 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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