Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silent-pewter-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, Sherston, SN16 0PS
- OS grid reference
- ST 860 862
- Coordinates
- 51.57457, -2.20317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse with an attached barn, dating from the early 17th century, with a late 17th-century addition and 19th-century alterations. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with stone dressings around the windows and features a gabled stone slate roof, which has three stone stacks and one end stone stack with a brick cap. It has a T-shaped plan, with the main range positioned at right angles to the road and a later wing running parallel to the barn on the left.
The south front consists of four sections: the gable end of the core range on the right, a two-storey, three-window block in the center, a gabled two-storey, one-window range on the left, and the barn further to the left. The main block's windows are 19th-century, two-light small pane casements set in 17th-century openings with hoodmoulds. The gable end on the right features a single light 17th-century window with a hoodmould, while the gabled section on the left has a three-light casement on the ground floor and a three-light chamfered mullion window above, both with hoodmoulds. There is a central gabled porch supported by brick piers, featuring an ovolo-moulded architrave around the doorway, which has a plank door. The east front and rear also have further chamfered mullions.
Inside, there is a large inglenook fireplace in the ground floor room to the right and a dog-legged staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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