The Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. Farmhouse.
The Farm House
- WRENN ID
- empty-flagstone-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton South MP: Mike Reader (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Farm House, 1, the Cross, Great Houghton
- OS grid reference
- SP 792 590
- Coordinates
- 52.22402, -0.84081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Farm House is an early 19th-century building located on the north side of Great Houghton. It is constructed of stone and features a Welsh slated roof with flanking chimneys. The house has three storeys and a south-facing front with four windows. The ground floor has sash windows, while the first floor contains three-light casements. There is a left central 19th-century porch with a four-panelled door.
Local climate
The Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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