Lower Swell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Swell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- moated-cobble-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Swell Farmhouse, Birtsmorton Lane, Longdon, GL20 6BD
- OS grid reference
- SO 834 354
- Coordinates
- 52.01766, -2.24268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Swell Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been extended. The original section is timber-framed with red brick panels and features a plain tile roof with a stack at the west end. It has a square frame consisting of 8 by 3 panels and is two stories tall, with two windows above and two windows along with a door below. At the east end, there is an attached painted brick range with a dark plain tile roof and a ridge stack, which has modern windows and a door. The east end wall displays exposed timber-framing. Additionally, there is a lower 19th-century section attached at the west end, made of red brick and rubble stone, which includes one first-floor window and various openings on the ground floor.
Local climate
Lower Swell Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 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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