Lower House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. House.

Lower House

WRENN ID
little-sill-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Lower House, Madley
OS grid reference
SO 419 385
Coordinates
52.04263, -2.8484
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower House is a house that possibly dates from the late 16th century or 17th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century and early 20th century. It features a timber frame with brick and plaster infill, and has roofs made of pantiles and tiles with a brick chimney. The building is L-shaped, with arms extending to the north-east and south-east, and it stands two storeys high.

On the north-west elevation, there is one window; the gable front to the right has a first-floor, two-light mid-20th century casement window, while the ground floor features an early 20th century casement window, also with two lights. The structure has heavy corner posts with triple-angle struts in the gable above a cambered tie-beam. A heavy cambered beam divides the storeys, and there is an angle strut from the cill to the left corner post. To the left, there is a lower unfenestrated wing with three square panels extending from the cill to the wall-plate. The entrance is located on the left side of the main range, behind the subsidiary wing.

Inside the main wing, timber-framed cross-walls create three structural bays, and there are chamfered ceiling beams. The southern side wall is underbuilt in brick.

Local climate

Lower House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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