Lower Hook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1955. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Hook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-marble-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Hook Farmhouse, Hook Street, Lydiard Tregoze
- OS grid reference
- SU 085 847
- Coordinates
- 51.56181, -1.87797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Hook Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century to the early 18th century. It is built of rubble stone and has a roof covered with concrete slates, featuring two hipped dormers. The building is two stories high with an attic and consists of four bays with a lobby entry. Inside, there are two reception rooms to the right of the entrance, one to the left, and a rear stair projection. The central stack has diagonal flues. The entrance includes a five-panel door, with the upper panel being glazed, set within a fluted doorcase and entablature. The windows are 19th-century timber casements, and the interior features chamfered beams.
Local climate
Lower Hook Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2017
- 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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