Lower Burytown Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1955. Farmhouse.
Lower Burytown Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallow-plinth-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Burytown Farmhouse, Blunsdon
- OS grid reference
- SU 161 916
- Coordinates
- 51.62304, -1.76821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Burytown Farmhouse dates from around 1700 and is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof. The farmhouse features a prominent pedimented front doorway with a modern door located centrally on the south side of the original block. It is two storeys tall with attics, gable end chimneys, and two hipped dormers. The building has five windows with cross mullions made of stone, which include block-stopped cavetto mouldings.
To the right and rear, there is a two and a half storey brick wing that is also covered with a stone slate roof and has a brick block eaves cornice. The east wing is made of rubble and has a hipped stone slate roof, featuring three arched French windows with modern dressings on the south side, along with a large modern pedimented extension to the north.
Local climate
Lower Burytown Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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