Lower Totnell Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1986. A C18 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lower Totnell Farm House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-soffit-grain
- 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 Totnell Farm House, Leigh, DT9 6HT
- OS grid reference
- ST 625 086
- Coordinates
- 50.87644, -2.53354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a farmhouse, likely dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone walls with a slate roof featuring coped gables. It has a stone chimney stack at the left end and a brick chimney stack at the right end. The farmhouse is two storeys high. A 19th-century brick gabled porch with a round-arched doorway and a ledged door is present. The ground floor has four casement windows with horizontal glazing bars. The first floor has four similar windows and one blocked window. A ledged door provides access to the cellar, located within the left-hand gable wall. A 19th-century brick lean-to addition extends from the rear, covered by a tiled roof.
Local climate
Lower Totnell Farm House receives an average of 840 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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