Lower Dunge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Dunge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-cornice-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Dunge Farmhouse, Bratton, BA14 6AX
- OS grid reference
- ST 892 542
- Coordinates
- 51.28685, -2.1552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Dunge Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that has been altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of rendered brick and features a tiled roof with a hip to the right and a half-hip to the left, along with brick stacks. The building is designed in an L-plan and is two storeys high with two windows. There is a central 20th-century porch and door, with two-light beaded mullioned casements on either side; the left one retains its leaded lights. On the first floor, there are two additional two-light beaded mullioned casements. The right return has a raking concrete buttress, a 20th-century casement to the right, and on the first floor, there is a two-light beaded mullioned casement with leaded lights to the left and a 20th-century casement to the right. The rear wing attached to the left has 20th-century casements and a pantiled roof, and there is a single-storey extension to the right, also with 20th-century casements. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a timber lintel on brick jambs in the room to the left of the entrance, along with chamfered beams, four-panelled doors, and flagstone floors. This house is built adjacent to the Dunge moated site, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Lower Dunge Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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