Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-quoin-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, Long Lane, Fowlmere, SG8 7TG
- OS grid reference
- TL 417 463
- Coordinates
- 52.09765, 0.06743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a late 17th-century timber-framed farmhouse. It has a thatched roof that is half-hipped to the left, and a rebuilt gault brick ridge stack positioned to the right of the centre. The building originally had a three-unit plan. The ground floor now has two 20th-century casement windows and a boarded front door. There are three similar casement eyebrow dormer windows in the attic. A single-storey extension, with a 20th-century tiled roof and a casement window, adjoins the west side.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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