Lower Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. A C18 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Lower Farm House

WRENN ID
old-cellar-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Farm House, Village Road, Hilton, DT11 0DQ
OS grid reference
ST 783 028
Coordinates
50.82487, -2.3083
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Farm House is a farmhouse with origins in the 18th century, which was enlarged to the north in the 19th century. The original section, now used as service rooms, features brick walls and a thatched roof. The 19th-century addition is L-shaped and connects to the original range, with walls that are partly made of brick on a flint base and partly of flint with brick banding. The building has a thatched roof with two brick chimneys, one at the north end and another at the angle of the two wings.

The main range, oriented at right angles to the road, includes a six-panel door set in a trellised porch. The ground floor has two casement windows with glazing bars, while the attic features two gabled dormers, each with similar casement windows. The range that runs parallel to the road has one casement window with glazing bars on the ground floor and one gabled dormer with similar casements in the attic. A boundary wall made of brick on a flint base, topped with rounded capping, runs along the road.

Local climate

Lower Farm House 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 69% 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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