Lower Farm House Including Attached Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Farm House Including Attached Barns
- WRENN ID
- first-marble-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farm House Including Attached Barns, Chapel Lane, Yetminster, DT9 6LJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 109
- Coordinates
- 50.89618, -2.57528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse with attached barns, dating from 1707. The house is constructed of rubble stone with a thatched roof, featuring coped gables and brick end stacks. It is two storeys and has an attic. A gabled porch with a tiled roof fronts the entrance, containing an inner ledged door set within a 4-centred stone arch. On the ground floor are two 4-light stone mullioned windows with leaded lights, each set beneath a hoodmould. A small oval window is located on either side of the porch. The first floor has three 3-light stone mullioned windows with leaded lights and hoodmoulds. In the attic are two inset ormers, one with a shutter and one with timber mullioned windows and leaded lights. The interior is not accessible. Attached to the right end of the house are outbuildings, constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries, with rubble stone walls and slate and tile roofs. A barn is attached to the rear of the house, at the left end; it is of rubble stone construction with a corrugated iron roof over thatch.
Local climate
Lower Farm House Including Attached Barns receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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