Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1986. Farmhouse.

Lower Farmhouse

WRENN ID
secret-keystone-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maldon
Constituency
Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Farmhouse, Maldon Road, Steeple
OS grid reference
TL 925 017
Coordinates
51.68113, 0.78321
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Farmhouse is a cottage that was formerly two cottages, dating from the 17th to 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and clad in tarred weatherboard, topped with a red plain tiled roof that has an outshot at the rear. The building features a central red brick chimney stack and stands two storeys high. The facade has a two-window range with small paned vertically sliding sashes that have moulded surrounds, along with pentice boards on the ground floor. There are vertically boarded doors on both the left and right sides, each with flat canopies supported by brackets above. At the rear, there is a 19th or 20th-century outshot. Inside, the building remains virtually unaltered, retaining vertically boarded doors and stairs that are adjacent to the chimney stack.

Local climate

Lower Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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