Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scarred-grate-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, Combpyne Rousdon, EX13 8SX
- OS grid reference
- SY 289 930
- Coordinates
- 50.73305, -3.00847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 16th century and early 18th century, with additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a heightened thatched roof with gabled ends. The lower south-west end, which was probably once a byre, has a hipped thatched roof and is now part of the house. A late 19th-century addition at the north-east end has a shingle roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, along with two and one bay additions. It has two and three light casements with glazing bars, and a central panelled door that is sheltered by a modern gabled porch. There is a brick ridge chimney stack that is off centre, as well as another stack at the north-east gable end. Inside, there is a heavy chamfered fireplace bressummer in the south-west end.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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