Arnolds Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Arnolds Farmhouse

WRENN ID
muted-buttress-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Arnolds Farmhouse, Bowden Hill, Lacock
OS grid reference
ST 933 678
Coordinates
51.40952, -2.09679
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Arnolds Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th to 18th century and was extended in the early 20th century. It is constructed from rubble stone with stone slate roofs and features two storeys and one and a half storeys. The principal front faces east and is made of squared rubble with ashlar dressings beneath a hipped roof. The right side of the building was constructed around 1700, while the left side was built to match around 1920. It has stone cyma-moulded cross windows, flush quoins, and a dripcourse above the ground floor.

The original section has two upper windows, with the right window having a dripcourse that extends around from the north end, and three lower windows. The matching addition has a two-window range, an eaves stack, and one dormer. The original two-window north front features a west stack and dripcourses over both floors. At the back, facing west, there is a cottage range that appears to be from the 17th century but has 18th-century cyma-moulded flush mullion windows. This includes two 2-light windows in dormer gables above and a 3-light and a 2-light window below, all with dripstones. There is a central door and a window to the right, both set in a stone slate open porch, and a blocked door in the north end wall. The north end has a stack.

Adjoining to the right is a 19th-century two-storey range made of squared rubble stone, featuring 16-pane sash windows on each floor and a door to the right. The east range contains the original oak staircase, which has a closed string, flat balusters, and a moulded rail.

Local climate

Arnolds Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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