Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Farmhouse.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusk-storey-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, Stoke St. Milborough
- OS grid reference
- SO 581 806
- Coordinates
- 52.4222, -2.61681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It is constructed of stone rubble with a brick dentil course at the eaves and features a tiled roof with 20th-century roof lights. The building has projecting stone gable-end stacks with later brick shafts and a square plan consisting of two front bays, a single central staircase bay, and small flanking side bays.
The exterior has three storeys and an attic. The front facade displays a two-window range of restored stone mullion windows with ashlar surrounds and 20th-century leaded lights in steel casements. The second floor has two-light mullion windows, while the lower floors feature three-light mullion windows. The central door is framed by a 20th-century chamfered ashlar surround.
On the right side, restored mullion leaded windows flank a central stone stack at each floor, with single-light stone windows at the attic level. The ground floor on this side is obscured by a 20th-century single-storey extension. The left side has a raised ground level, resulting in a two-storey and attic elevation with restored stone windows similar to those on the opposite side, except for a 20th-century door in a chamfered surround on the lower floor's right side. The rear features two restored stone mullion leaded windows at the first floor, with the ground floor masked by a 20th-century single-storey tiled mono-pitch extension.
Inside, the farmhouse has square-framed partitions on all floors, with 17th-century ovolo-chamfered oak door frames and a contemporary staircase. The roof structure consists of twin trenched purlins with raised eaves and an internal truss made up of three posts with rails and twin raking struts supporting the principals.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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