Lower Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. A C17 Farmhouse.
Lower Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- fading-wattle-sunrise
- 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 Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall, Over Compton
- OS grid reference
- ST 587 170
- Coordinates
- 50.95131, -2.58866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dated 1665, located in Over Compton. Above the front door, there is an inscription that reads: "Istas Aedes Restituit Refecit J.R.P.G. A.S. MDCCCXCII" (1892), indicating a repair. The building features dressed stone walls and slate roofs with stone gable copings and moulded kneelers. It has ashlar stone stacks at the gable ends and consists of parallel ranges over two storeys.
The facade includes three windows with three-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, and a two-light window above the front door. There are straight dripstones above the windows, and iron casements with rectangular leaded lights. The north end wall has small single-light iron casements with lead lights, and wood lintels above. The front door is centrally located, featuring straight-chamfered jambs and a depressed-arch head. The door has a panelled bottom and a glazed top half, dating from the 19th century.
Attached to the farmhouse are front garden walls made of rubble stone with ashlar coping stones, which are ramped to the front entrance.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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