Long Acre is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Farmhouse.
Long Acre
- WRENN ID
- deep-thatch-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Long Acre, Wappenham Road, Helmdon
- OS grid reference
- SP 591 441
- Coordinates
- 52.09292, -1.13813
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Long Acre is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with slate roofs and features brick end and ridge stacks on stone bases. The building is designed in an L-plan and has two storeys plus an attic. The main front, which faces the garden to the south, includes a central part-glazed door with a moulded stone and eared surround, a circular window above with a moulded stone surround, and two 3-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, all with moulded stone sills and surrounds. Above the door, there is a sundial and a County fire plaque. The building has quoins, a roof dormer, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. The left gable features a 2-light flat-faced stone mullion window, while similar 2- and 3-light windows are present at the rear. Inside, there is an ogee stop-chamfered spine beam, open fireplaces with stop-chamfered bressumers, a fitted cupboard with shaped shelves, and a stone cellar.
Local climate
Long Acre 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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