Lake Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Farmhouse.

Lake Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fading-gargoyle-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lake Farmhouse, Sutton Benger
OS grid reference
ST 935 778
Coordinates
51.49971, -2.09426
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lake Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins in the 17th century and alterations from the 18th century. It is constructed of rubble stone and features stone slate roofs, with stacks located at the east end, on the ridge, and at the rear wing. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has an L-shaped plan.

The south front is long and irregular, with an eaves gable to the left of the ridge stack. This gable includes a pair of casement windows with brick jambs, and below it, there is a 2-light beaded mullion window on the first floor, along with a chamfered flush surround of a former door that has been converted into a window, complete with a dripstone above. To the right, there is a straight joint, a pair of casement windows on the first floor, and a beaded 3-light mullion window on the ground floor. The east end wall features a similar 2-light window on the first floor.

To the left of the gable, there is a range with brick-sided casements, including two triple casements on the first floor, one pair of casement windows, and two doors on the ground floor. The roof has one hipped dormer and a half-hipped gable on the west side. The left side of the ground floor is partly obscured by a lean-to addition. The northeast rear wing has beaded mullion windows on its east side, with two 2-light windows above, a door, and a 3-light window below. The farmhouse was illustrated in the Draycot Estate sale catalogue dated July 27, 1920.

Local climate

Lake Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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