Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1976. A C17 Farmhouse.
Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- floating-moulding-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Top Farmhouse, Tiffield
- OS grid reference
- SP 687 511
- Coordinates
- 52.15417, -0.997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone and features a slate roof with brick stacks at the ends and along the ridge. The building has a three-unit through-passage plan and stands two storeys tall with an attic, presenting a two-window range.
The entrance is marked by a four-panel part-glazed double-leaf door located in a 20th-century gabled porch to the left of the centre. To the right of the centre, there is a similar door in a 19th-century trellis porch. The windows are three-light casements on both the ground and first floors, featuring stop-chamfered wood lintels and H and HL hinges. The exception is a small two-light window on the ground floor at the far right, which has a rendered lintel. The gables are stone-coped and supported by kneelers. Inside, the farmhouse contains ogee-stop-chamfered lintels and 19th-century marble chimneypieces.
Local climate
Top Farmhouse 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
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