Lowlands Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Farmhouse.
Lowlands Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-column-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lowlands Farmhouse, Shalford
- OS grid reference
- TL 720 263
- Coordinates
- 51.90937, 0.50054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowlands Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with handmade red clay tiles. The building has four bays facing west and features a 19th-century axial stack located one bay from the right end. It is one storey high with attics, and has three 20th-century casement windows, along with another in a gabled dormer. A 20th-century door is also present. At the rear, the pitch of the roof shows remnants of a gambrel roof from a former extension that has since been demolished. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams, one of which has step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section supported by pegged clamps, although these are original. The left bay has a 20th-century floor, and the roof features clasped purlins.
Local climate
Lowlands 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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