Laws Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Farmhouse.
Laws Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tilted-chamber-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Laws Farmhouse, Coster's Lane, Bowerchalke
- OS grid reference
- SU 021 235
- Coordinates
- 51.01088, -1.97014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laws Farmhouse is a mid-17th century farmhouse that has been converted into a detached cottage. It is constructed from limestone and flint rubble stone, with Flemish bond brick on the left side of the first floor, and features a half-hipped thatched roof with brick stacks. The building has a gable end facing the road and is two stories high with three windows.
The entrance includes a planked door located in a 20th-century porch on the right, while to the left are two 2-light casements, one of which is in a blocked doorway. A single-storey extension to the right has two 2-light casements. On the first floor, there are three 2-light casements. Attached to the left side is a weatherboarded outhouse with a hipped thatched roof.
At the rear, there is a planked door and a 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with a hoodmould, along with three additional 2-light casements. The roof features two eyebrow dormers with 4-light leaded casements and one 20th-century casement. Inside, the farmhouse retains deeply chamfered beams with stepped stops, planked doors, and blocked open fireplaces.
Local climate
Laws Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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