Low Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1983. Farmhouse.
Low Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tall-wattle-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Low Farmhouse, High Street, Great Paxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 207 634
- Coordinates
- 52.25617, -0.23187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Farmhouse is a 17th-century building located at the rear of a mid-19th century house on Great Paxton High Street. The east range of the farmhouse is timber-framed and has modern render. It features a steeply pitched, modern tiled roof with a ridge stack. The windows are modern, while the 19th-century house is two storeys tall, with plain tiles and end stacks. Each storey has two hung sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance is located in the north gable end.
Local climate
Low Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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 0.4°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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