Lower Farmhouse (Factory Farm) is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Farmhouse, industrial building.
Lower Farmhouse (Factory Farm)
- WRENN ID
- haunted-gutter-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Farmhouse, industrial building
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse (Factory Farm), Fifehead Magdalen
- OS grid reference
- ST 765 204
- Coordinates
- 50.9827, -2.33507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse, also known as Factory Farm, is a farmhouse and industrial building dating from the early 19th century. It features ashlar and rubble walls, a hipped slate roof, and rendered end stacks. The south-east wing has a swept-up parapet that conceals the roof. The building has three storeys and a four-window range, with sash windows that include glazing bars, some of which are blocked. There is a dentilled brick eaves course and a plat band between the ground and first floor. The corners are accentuated with rusticated quoins. The site was used for the woollen industry in the 18th century, established by a Frenchman named A'court, and later became a stocking factory operated by Messrs Stanford and Dowding.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse (Factory Farm) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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