Home Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. House.

Home Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dusted-fireplace-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1987
Type
House
Address
Home Farmhouse, 26, Westhorpe Lane, Byfield
OS grid reference
SP 511 533
Coordinates
52.17563, -1.25284
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Home Farmhouse is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dated 1714, with later alterations from the 18th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and features a wood shingle roof, along with blue brick ridge and end stacks. The building has a 4-unit plan with a central staircase, standing two storeys tall with an attic and a four-window range.

The central entrance consists of a plank door framed by a moulded wood surround and topped with a straight stone hood supported by timber brackets. To the right, there is a 20th-century canted bay window, and a three-light casement window to the far right, which has a stone lintel and keyblock. On the first floor, there are two similar windows to the right of the centre, with a datestone inscribed IR/1714/SR positioned between them. Left of centre, there are three-light casement windows with timber lintels. Additionally, there is a semi-circular tiled projection that contains a bread oven between the left ground floor windows, and a two-light casement window on the far left of the ground floor.

Inside, the farmhouse features stop-chamfered spine beams, stop-chamfered rafters, and two open fireplaces with chamfered bressumers, one of which includes a bread oven.

Local climate

Home Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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