Lower House is a Grade II listed building in the Redditch local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.

Lower House

WRENN ID
calm-timber-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Redditch
Constituency
Redditch MP: Chris Bloore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1986
Type
House
Address
Lower House, Far Moor Lane, B98 0QX
OS grid reference
SP 084 674
Coordinates
52.3053, -1.87702
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house dating to the late 16th century, significantly altered and refronted in the early 19th century, with further changes around 1910 and in the mid-20th century. The house is timber-framed with rendered infill on a sandstone base, incorporating brick replacement walling and refacing, and stucco. It has a roughly T-shaped plan, comprising a main three-bay east wing and a rear central range of two framed bays with a single-bay south return. The east wing's roof is tiled, partly hipped, and concealed behind a parapet with kneelers at the gable ends.

The east garden front has a chamfered plinth and a string course at both first-floor and eaves level, with a dentil eaves cornice to the rear. The central bay projects slightly and is gabled, flanked by diagonal buttresses with offsets extending above the eaves as tall, diamond-sectioned pinnacles, repeated at the gable ends. The first-floor string steps beneath the central first-floor window to form a sill string. Windows are predominantly 2-light latticed casements with drip moulds; some first-floor windows in the outer bays were removed by the time of a survey in 1985. A flat-roofed porch with a parapet and diagonal corner buttresses (matching the gable buttresses) sits centrally, featuring a 4-centred chamfered archway, a drip mould, and a half-glazed door. A cross is inscribed in the apex of the central gable.

The interior, which was not inspected, is said to contain moulded ceiling beams, close-set studding at ground floor level, and back-to-back fireplaces. The original house, prior to the 19th-century alterations, comprised three bays aligned east/west with a central chimney bay, a south return (to the service end), and a north return with a small porch wing. The east gable end likely had a shallow jetty at first-floor level and is recorded as having decorative herringbone panels above. The original structure had close-set studded timberwork throughout, suggesting a building of higher status than a simple farmhouse. A significant sandstone wall, possibly belonging to an earlier structure, has been incorporated into the building and is partly obscured by later additions to the northwest. A rainwater head inscribed with the date "1910" is present to the southeast, likely indicating restoration work.

Local climate

Lower House 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 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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