Wantage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. A C18 Farmhouse.
Wantage Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muted-string-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wantage Farmhouse, 2, Overstone Road, Moulton
- OS grid reference
- SP 785 662
- Coordinates
- 52.28871, -0.84936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wantage Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1715. It has a regular coursed lias construction and a thatched roof, featuring an L-shaped plan and two storeys. The north elevation has a two-window range with a gabled cross wing on the right. There is a central 20th-century door with a hood above it. The windows are 19th-century casements set under wooden lintels. The gable ends have ashlar parapets, and there are brick stacks at each end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Wantage Farmhouse 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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