Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- narrow-gateway-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, Benson, OX10 6SL
- OS grid reference
- SU 616 908
- Coordinates
- 51.61354, -1.11136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 18th century with a front that is probably from the early 19th century. It features painted render, likely over brick, and has a slate hipped roof with lead ridges and brick stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a four-window range. There is a six-panel door with an overlight and an open wood trellis porch located to the left of centre. To the left, there is a tripartite sash window, and another tripartite sash window is positioned to the right of centre. There is a blank recessed panel to the right. A wrought iron verandah is present on the ground floor. On the first floor, there is a tripartite sash window to the left and one right of centre, along with a 12-pane sash window to the left of centre and a blind panel to the right. Internal stacks are located to the left and right. At the rear, there is an 18th-century two-light wood leaded casement window on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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