Lower Eype Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lower Eype Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-grate-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Eype Farmhouse, Symondsbury, DT6 6AW
- OS grid reference
- SY 448 917
- Coordinates
- 50.72274, -2.78301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, dating to around 1700. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a thatched roof, featuring stone gable coping on the right-hand gable and a hip on the left-hand gable. Brick stacks are present at the centre and right-hand gable. The farmhouse has two storeys and three windows, each with three-light wooden casements featuring glazing bars. The windows have wooden litels, cills, and large stone lintel blocks above the wooden lintels. A 20th-century wooden front door with glass panels is located at the centre. Inside, there are mid-chamfered beams.
Local climate
Lower Eype Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- 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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