Lower Farmhouse and Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. House, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Farmhouse and Barn
- WRENN ID
- slow-gallery-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse and Barn, 87, Main Street, Empingham, LE15 8PR
- OS grid reference
- SK 955 088
- Coordinates
- 52.66861, -0.58827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse and Barn is a house and barn dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with quoins, featuring a Collyweston and Welsh slate roof that has a moulded stone ridge and end stacks. The barn has a pantile roof. The building is in an L shape, with a wing that projects forward on the right and has a gable that is stone coped.
The farmhouse is two storeys high. On the front of the main range, there is a two-light and a three-light casement window on the ground floor, and two two-light casement windows above. On the inner return of the wing, there is a part-glazed door, a tripartite sash window with a configuration of 2/2, 6/6, and 2/2 to the right, and a three-light casement window above. There is also a two-light casement window on the wing facing the gable. Most windows have stone sills and wooden lintels.
At the rear, there is an extension with a brick ridge stack, leading to a long barn that is one and a half storeys high, with a stone-coped end gable. The barn features a central doorway and three square loft doors that face the yard.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse and Barn 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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