Lowtoft Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. A Fen Artisan Mannerist Farmhouse.

Lowtoft Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dark-courtyard-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Boston
Constituency
Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lowtoft Farmhouse, Wrangle
OS grid reference
TF 449 521
Coordinates
53.04674, 0.16148
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lowtoft Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1664, designed in the Fen Artisan Mannerist style, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features a pantile roof, brick coped gables, and two brick gable stacks. The building has a T-shaped plan and is two storeys plus a garret, with a four-bay front that includes a plinth and a first-floor band that rises over the window openings.

The entrance is an off-centre 20th-century door with a basket-arched head, set in a rusticated brick surround. To the right of the door is a semi-circular headed niche with a brick hood and a rectangular surround that is attached to the first-floor band. Above this niche is a detached brick pediment containing an ashlar datestone inscribed with the year 1664. The right side of the building features a single 19th-century margin light sash window, while the left side has a pair of similar windows. On the first floor, there are three more windows of the same style, all with brick segmental heads. Remnants of earlier window designs can be seen, including a straight joint and springing for basket-shaped arched heads.

The gable end of the farmhouse has a brick dogtoothed band and two small, blank, semi-circular headed openings on the first floor. At the rear, there is a lower single-storey service range with a brick coped tumbled gable. Inside, the farmhouse features moulded beams with ogee stops.

Local climate

Lowtoft Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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