Lowerton Farmhouse and Adjacent Pighouses is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Farmhouse.
Lowerton Farmhouse and Adjacent Pighouses
- WRENN ID
- tall-wicket-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lowerton Farmhouse and Adjacent Pighouses, Calstock
- OS grid reference
- SX 409 737
- Coordinates
- 50.542, -4.24637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowerton Farmhouse and adjacent pighouses is a farmhouse dating from the late 19th century, featuring elements from the 17th century that have been reused in a nearby outbuilding now serving as pighouses. The building is constructed from slatestone rubble, with the front covered in slate. It has a hipped slate roof with ridge tiles and stacks that have rendered shafts on the sides.
The farmhouse has a double depth plan, with the main rooms located at the front on the right and left, a dairy at the rear left, and a kitchen at the rear right. The pighouses, located adjacent to the front right, contain 17th-century features and may include part of the wall from the earlier building, made of slate rubble with granite dressings.
The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front, all featuring 19th-century windows with 20-pane sashes. There is a central open-fronted gabled porch with an outer round arch and an inner four-panelled door with an overlight. The left side is slate-hung, with a single light window for the dairy on the ground floor to the left, while the right side has a blind rubble wall. The rear has three 16-pane sashes on the first floor, and on the ground floor, there is a 16-pane sash with a cambered head to the right and left, along with a 20th-century rubble gabled porch off-centre to the left.
On the front wall of the pighouses, there are two re-used chamfered granite windows that are blocked, along with three doors at ground level and a single-storey lean-to attached to the rear. The front features an inset granite stone carved with a primitive face, topped with a hood mould. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lowerton Farmhouse and Adjacent Pighouses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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