Litchborough Farmhouse and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Litchborough Farmhouse and Attached Wall

WRENN ID
sharp-plinth-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Litchborough Farmhouse and Attached Wall, Banbury Road, NN12 8JF
OS grid reference
SP 632 543
Coordinates
52.18345, -1.07583
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Litchborough Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1741, with early 19th century additions and alterations. It is built of coursed squared ironstone and has a 20th century plain-tile roof, featuring a stone end stack on the left and a brick stack on a stone base on the right. The building has a two-unit plan, stands two storeys high with an attic, and has a two-window range. There is a central blocked door and 16-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, all with wooden lintels. The farmhouse has a plinth, two small square cellar windows to the left of centre with stone lintels, quoins, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. The left gable end features a datestone inscribed P/IC/1741. To the right, there is a lower two-storey wing that includes a re-set blocked 3-light ogee-moulded stone mullion window with a hood mould on the first floor. At the rear, there is a single-storey early 19th century addition that houses a staircase, featuring a 6-panel door with an overlight and a segmental-arched head, along with a large pointed-arched window that lights the staircase.

To the left of the farmhouse is an attached wall made of coursed squared ironstone, likely from the mid-18th century. This wall has a plank door to the garden set in a chamfered wood surround with a wooden lintel. It also features stone coping and sweeps up at either end. Inside the farmhouse, there are spine beams that are boxed on the ground floor and have ogee stops upstairs. The staircase window contains stained and painted glass, and there is a stone cellar and a collar-truss roof.

Local climate

Litchborough Farmhouse and Attached Wall 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 77% 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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