Lower House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farmhouse.
Lower House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silent-column-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower House Farmhouse, Alberbury with Cardeston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 391 120
- Coordinates
- 52.70298, -2.90225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower House Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse located in Alberbury with Cardeston. It is constructed from Alberbury breccia, squared and coursed rubble, with red brick dressings and features a hipped slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall. It has a plinth and deep eaves, with a pair of brick ridge stacks and an external stone and brick end stack at the rear.
The facade consists of three bays separated by pilaster strips, with glazing bar sash windows that have slightly segmental gauged brick heads. The central entrance features a six-panelled door, where the lower two panels are flush and the top panels are glazed, accompanied by a radial fanlight. The door is framed by panelled reveals, with the top panels raised and fielded, and a surround that includes reeded pilaster strips and tall shaped brackets supporting a moulded cornice.
To the right, there is a two-bay return front that includes wooden cross-casements and a first-floor glazing bar sash window. A former two-storey service wing is set back to the left and contains a mix of 19th-century and 20th-century casements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower House Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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