Lower Wallop Farmhouse and Lower Wallop Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Lower Wallop Farmhouse and Lower Wallop Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-floor-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Wallop Farmhouse and Lower Wallop Farm Cottage, Westbury, SY5 9RT
- OS grid reference
- SJ 324 076
- Coordinates
- 52.66201, -3.00033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Wallop Farmhouse and Lower Wallop Farm Cottage is a farmhouse that has now been divided. It dates from around 1670, was extended around 1812, and was partly rebuilt in the mid to late 19th century. The structure features a rendered timber frame with red brick nogging, and part of it has been rebuilt in red brick. The early 19th-century addition is made of coursed grey sandstone rubble with red brick facing on the southeast side, showing evidence of a former painted surface. The building has a slate roof that is hipped over the early 19th-century block and likely consists of two or three framed bays with an addition to the southeast.
The farmhouse is two storeys tall. The southeast front has deep eaves and features a pair of symmetrically placed brick ridge stacks, along with a brick ridge stack at the junction with the rear wing, which has two star-shaped shafts (the tops of which were rebuilt in the 20th century). The facade is arranged in a 1:1:1 bay pattern, with the center bay projecting slightly and topped by a triangular pedimented gable. It has 12- and 16-pane glazing bar sashes with slightly segmental heads, and a central half-glazed door that has two panels and six small lights. The doorcase includes an architrave, reeded pilaster strips, and reeded console brackets with guttae, though only the right-hand one remains.
At the rear, there is a central two-storey gabled staircase tower. The rear wing features 19th-century wooden casements and a gabled back porch to the northeast, with some timber framing partly exposed to the southwest. There is likely a 19th-century kitchen block in the angle at the rear. Inside, the farmhouse has early 19th-century fittings, including six-panelled doors and moulded cornices. The staircase has three flights with landings, an open string with scrolled cut brackets, stick balusters, and a handrail with a turned bottom newel post.
Local climate
Lower Wallop Farmhouse and Lower Wallop Farm Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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