Low Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1986. House. 5 related planning applications.
Low Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-wicket-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Low Farmhouse, Towthorpe Road, Strensall with Towthorpe, YO32 9SP
- OS grid reference
- SE 623 588
- Coordinates
- 54.02227, -1.04921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of brick with a pantile roof and follows a three-cell plan. The house has two storeys and three windows on the first floor. It features two-light casement windows with flat brick arches throughout. A 20th-century half-glazed door is located to the left, and a window is set within a blocked doorway on the right. A stepped eaves course is visible, and the raised gable ends feature end and ridge stacks, with the stack to the left having been rebuilt. The interior contains chamfered spine beams, 18th-century panel doors, an 18th-century splat baluster staircase, and a 19th-century kitchen range.
Local climate
Low Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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