Lower Farmhouse with Attached Gate Piers and Ramped Wall to South is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Lower Farmhouse with Attached Gate Piers and Ramped Wall to South

WRENN ID
young-rampart-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Farmhouse with Attached Gate Piers and Ramped Wall to South, DT2 0PA
OS grid reference
ST 514 055
Coordinates
50.84775, -2.69131
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1700, featuring rubble-stone walls and a thatch roof with stone gable copings. It has brick stacks at both the left and right gables and stands two storeys tall with three windows. The windows are three-light wooden casements topped with 19th-century segmental stone heads. The front door is centrally located and has a stone beaded surround and a stone cornice above a wooden door with nine glass panes, which is from the 20th century.

To the left is a former dairy and chicken-house, built with the same materials, which is one and a half storeys high and has about four windows, including two and three-light wooden casements in dressed stone surrounds. There is a plank door at the left end, also from the 20th century.

Attached to the farmhouse are two square stone gate-piers with stone gable copings, dating from the 18th century. A rubble-stone wall extends approximately 10 metres to the southeast and features ramped coping stones. In front, there are iron railings with arrow-head finials and a gate, set on a stone sleeper-wall.

Local climate

Lower Farmhouse with Attached Gate Piers and Ramped Wall to South 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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