The Homestead and Attached Cob Wall is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Farmhouse.
The Homestead and Attached Cob Wall
- WRENN ID
- buried-pavement-vetch
- 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
- The Homestead and Attached Cob Wall, 6, High Street, Bugbrooke
- OS grid reference
- SP 676 576
- Coordinates
- 52.21259, -1.01061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead and attached cob wall is a farmhouse located on Bugbrooke High Street, dating from the early to mid-17th century with 18th-century additions and alterations from the late 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings and features a slate roof with brick stacks at the ends and ridge. It has an L-plan layout, standing two storeys high with an attic and a two-window range facing the street.
The street front displays three-light leaded casement windows on both the ground and first floors, all set with ironstone sills, jambs, and flat-arched heads. There is a chamfered ironstone plinth, quoins, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. The left gable end has one-light leaded windows on both floors, framed by double-chamfered stone surrounds, and a blocked two-light double-chamfered stone mullion window in the attic.
To the rear left, a two-bay wing features a two-storey gabled porch adjacent to the front block's gable end, which includes a Tudor-arched doorway and a two-light double-chamfered stone mullion window on the first floor, along with blocked one-light windows on the sides, all with double-chamfered stone surrounds. There is a three-light casement window to the left of the porch, showcasing a chamfered stone surround from the original stone mullion window, and a two-light leaded casement window above with a wooden lintel. The original gable end is topped with a stone-coped gable and kneelers.
The later, slightly lower three-bay wing has two- and three-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows, some with hood moulds, and a stone-coped gable with kneelers. The attached cob wall, likely from the 18th century, extends from the right corner of the street front, enclosing two sides of the garden behind the wing. This wall is approximately 1.5 metres high and 44 metres long, topped with pantiles.
Inside, the building features stop-chamfered spine beams and other boxed spine beams, stone-flagged floors, and a stone fireplace in the upper room with a Tudor-arched head and a straight-headed wave-moulded stone surround. The roof is supported by collar trusses.
Local climate
The Homestead and Attached Cob 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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