Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. Farmhouse.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- late-gateway-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, Common Street, Ravenstone
- OS grid reference
- SP 849 501
- Coordinates
- 52.14346, -0.75967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with a rear wing added in 1734. It is constructed from coursed rubblestone and features a thatched roof, while the rear wing has a slated roof. The building has three bays and two storeys. Originally, there was an entry into a lobby in front of the stack between the left-hand bays, which has now been replaced with a two-light casement window. The adjacent bays contain three-light casements, and there is a glazed door in the right-hand bay. The first floor has three eyebrowed eaves-breaking windows, with three-light casements in the outer bays and a sash window in the centre. Two raking buttresses flank the central bays, and the gables are coped with kneelers. There is a brick stack at the gable end and a stone base to a brick stack located between the left-hand bays. The rear wing, which is two storeys and partially rebuilt, has a slate roof and features a datestone inscribed 'I.S.1734'.
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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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