Lower Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1986. Farmhouse.
Lower Farm House
- WRENN ID
- carved-timber-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farm House, Beer Hackett
- OS grid reference
- ST 598 118
- Coordinates
- 50.90461, -2.57193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farm House is a detached farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It features rubble stone walls and a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and has a coped gable at the right end. The house has one brick stack to the right of the door, along with one plastered stack and one stone end stack. It is one storey with an attic, and there is an extension at the left end, also one storey with an attic. The layout consists of a three-room end cross-passage plan.
The entrance includes a ledged door located under a slate pentice supported by wooden posts. To the left of the door is a two-light stone mullioned window with a hoodmould, while to the right are two four-light stone mullioned windows, also with hoodmoulds. In the attic, there are three three-light stone mullioned windows without hoodmoulds. A date stone on the front wall reads "1 and AXX. 1735," indicating a date of repair or alteration.
In the extension, there is one casement window on the ground floor and one casement with lead lights in the attic. Inside, the hall features deep chamfered intersecting ceiling beams and a large open fireplace with a timber lintel. The parlour includes a chamfered ceiling beam and a moulded four-centred arched stone fireplace.
Local climate
Lower Farm House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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