Lower Venn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Lower Venn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-cornice-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Venn Farmhouse, Avenbury
- OS grid reference
- SO 665 506
- Coordinates
- 52.15313, -2.49085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Venn Farmhouse is a 17th-century building constructed with a timber frame that is faced in roughcast, sitting on stone foundations. The farmhouse is two stories tall, with attics and a cellar. It features a total of five windows, arranged with a central block and cross-wings, one of which has two gables. The windows include wood mullion casements and small pointed arch windows in the gable heads. The roof is modern and covered with tiles. Lower Venn Farmhouse is part of a group that includes the associated farm buildings.
Local climate
Lower Venn Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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