Upper Lea Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Upper Lea Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grey-mortar-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Upper Lea Farmhouse, Lydham, SY9 5HZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 351 890
- Coordinates
- 52.49591, -2.95617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Lea Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around 1725. It features uncoursed limestone rubble with some red brick dressings and a plain tile roof, designed in a T-plan. The building has a basement, two storeys, and an attic, with a 19th-century gabled eaves-dormer on the left and end stacks. The facade has three bays, with 19th-century segmental-headed wooden mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor. The ground floor has two-light 20th-century segmental-headed metal casements. There are four steps leading to the central door, which has six raised and fielded panels, a lugged architrave, a three-light rectangular overlight, and a semi-circular hood with console brackets and a moulded cornice. To the left, there is a boarded cellar door, and to the right, a one-storey block with an end stack.
Inside, there is an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase featuring three twisted balusters on each tread and a cluster of four balusters as the newel. The staircase has a cut string with shaped tread ends and a moulded handrail. The ground floor room to the left includes raised and fielded panelling, a moulded cornice, and a wall cupboard with a shaped-head panelled door, fluted keystone, and coved interior with shaped shelves.
Local climate
Upper Lea Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 1 application
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