Lower Hunthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Hunthouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-stronghold-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Hunthouse, Longtown, HR2 0PD
- OS grid reference
- SO 329 267
- Coordinates
- 51.9352, -2.97646
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Hunthouse is a farmhouse with an early 17th-century core, significantly altered during the 18th and early 19th centuries, with further changes in the 20th century. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with a Welsh slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan, incorporating a lobby-entry and a further north gable-end stack. It extends over two storeys, includes an attic, and has a cellar. The entrance front has four openings. A window on the left end replaces a former doorway leading to a granary. The ground floor has 3-light casement windows, with steps leading to the former granary on the left. A 3-light casement window is located to the left of a 20th-century gabled half-glazed porch, and another window to the right. The inner doorway has a wooden-framed ledged door. Internally, the farmhouse has been altered, yet retains a large open fireplace in the room to the right of the entrance, featuring a massive stone lintel. Some chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops survive in this room.
Local climate
Lower Hunthouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- 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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