Lower Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. House.
Lower Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- roaming-foundation-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Abbey Farmhouse, Abbey Lane, Axminster
- OS grid reference
- SY 287 973
- Coordinates
- 50.77162, -3.01241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Abbey Farmhouse is an 18th or 19th century house that includes medieval remains from the Cistercian Abbey of Newenham, which was founded in 1246. The building is constructed of stone rubble and features a tiled roof with gabled ends. It has two storeys and a long four-window range, with modern metal-frame casements. There is a modern porch located to the left of the centre and two brick chimney stacks at the ridge. A wing at the rear creates a T-shaped plan.
Inside, the east wall has a chamfered stone door frame, and the north wall contains a reset stone corbel. The house likely incorporates what was once the west range of the Abbey.
Local climate
Lower Abbey Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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