Home Farmhouse with Front Railings and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1962. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Home Farmhouse with Front Railings and Gate
- WRENN ID
- knotted-tower-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Home Farmhouse with Front Railings and Gate, Lower Wraxall, South Wraxall, BA15 2RS
- OS grid reference
- ST 832 641
- Coordinates
- 51.37582, -2.24145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century farmhouse. It is built of rubble stone with a stone slate roof, featuring coped verges and gable end stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has five windows across the front. The central entrance has a 6-panelled door within a chamfered stone surround with a transom light above; it is flanked by two 2-light, ovolo-mullioned casement windows. A continuous stone string course runs along the front, sitting above the doorway and window sills. The first floor has five matching 2-light, ovolo-mullioned casement windows, also aligned with the string course. On the right return, there is a blocked 2-light mullioned window with a hoodmould, alongside a single attic casement.
A later, 18th-century gabled wing is attached to the left, flush with the front facade of the main house. This wing features a 2-light, ovolo-mullioned casement window on both the ground and first floors, and has a Welsh slate roof with coped verge. The rear of the house features three gabled wings, incorporating 20th-century mullioned casements, along with a lean-to extension on the left. The interior has not been inspected.
The front of the house is bordered by cast-iron spearhead railings set upon stone dwarf walls. A single cast-iron gate, with dog bars, is set within iron piers topped with anthemion finials.
Local climate
Home Farmhouse with Front Railings and Gate receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- 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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