Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-shingle-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, Kirtling, CB8 9PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 700 583
- Coordinates
- 52.1971, 0.48599
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with a 19th-century bakehouse on the left side and raised to two storeys in the 19th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a slate roof and features two red brick ridge stacks. It has two storeys and an original two-unit plan, with a large side stack on the right that is now concealed by a later addition. There are three casement windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor, along with a six-panelled door. Inside, the floor frames are exposed, showcasing ogee moulded main beams in the right-hand room and cross-beams in the left-hand room, with some substantial timber visible in the wall frames.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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