Lower Kingsland Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Farmhouse.
Lower Kingsland Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scarred-stair-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Kingsland Farmhouse, Netherbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 450 978
- Coordinates
- 50.7772, -2.78073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Kingsland Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features cob walls that are rendered and has a thatched roof at the right gable end, with a brick stack located at the center of the ridge, added in the 20th century. The building is two storeys high and has three windows, which are three-light wooden casements with glazing bars and wooden cills. On the left side, there is a stone bay that extends forward. The central porch, dating from the 19th century, has brick walls, a stone gable coping, and a slate roof. A stone date tablet is reversed. Inside, the layout includes a lobby entrance plan with a staircase next to the fireplaces. There are two keeping-places located at the rear of the open fireplace, as well as a dairy with a cheese loft above it at the rear.
Local climate
Lower Kingsland Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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