Lower Townsend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Lower Townsend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallow-frieze-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Townsend Farmhouse, Powerstock, DT6 3TE
- OS grid reference
- SY 516 963
- Coordinates
- 50.76508, -2.68722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Townsend Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse built in the late 17th century. It features dressed stone walls and a slate roof, with brick stacks at both gables. The building has two storeys and two windows on the front, which are three- and four-light stone mullions with hollow chamfers. There is a separate label above the left-hand ground floor window. The upper floor windows are three-light and four-light without labels. The central front doorway has a depressed-arch head and chamfered jambs, leading to a panelled door with a glass light above, which dates from the 20th century. At the rear, there is a short extension from the 19th century that includes one brick stack and features two-light casements.
Local climate
Lower Townsend Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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