Lower Woodhouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. A Post-medieval Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lower Woodhouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-cinder-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Lower Woodhouse Farmhouse, Fern Hill, Olveston, BS32 4LU
- OS grid reference
- ST 609 855
- Coordinates
- 51.56731, -2.56454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Woodhouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of rubble with pantiled and double Roman tiled roofs, featuring brick gable stacks to the left and right of the center, and a stepped roofline at the central stack. The building is L-shaped and has a former through passage. It stands 2½ storeys tall and has three windows; the first floor includes one three-light casement and two two-light casements, all with timber lintels. On the ground floor, there is a three-light casement with a concrete lintel, a 19th-century gabled porch in the second bay from the left with a heavy plank door in a plain frame, a three-light casement, and a 20th-century door with a hood replacing the former dairy door. There is also a two-light dormer and a single-storey addition with a pitched roof to the left, which has a two-light casement. The southeast elevation features a 20th-century window at both the ground and first floors, along with a three-light casement in the gable. The rear of the building has a single-storey wing, which was formerly a cellar, with irregular windows and a former through passage door that has been converted into a window. Inside, there are plank and batten doors, chamfered beams, and a winder stair located at the rear of the passage. The roof is a four-bay structure with a tie-beam, collar, upper collar, plated yoke, and two rows of purlins.
Local climate
Lower Woodhouse Farmhouse 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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