Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-clay-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, Barrow Road, the Saxhams
- OS grid reference
- TL 781 631
- Coordinates
- 52.23744, 0.60688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the late 18th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring flint walls with red brick quoins and strings. The roof is hipped and slated, with gabled dormers also covered in slate. There are axial red brick chimneys and sash windows throughout the building. The entrance is a six-panelled door, sheltered by a swept-gabled porch with a metal roof, supported by an open wrought-iron trellis frame.
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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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