Lower Churchill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Lower Churchill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solemn-frieze-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Churchill Farmhouse, East Down, EX31 4LT
- OS grid reference
- SS 595 408
- Coordinates
- 51.14935, -4.0099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Churchill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with possibly earlier origins, and features an 18th-century wing. The building is constructed of slate rubble that is rendered on the south and west sides, topped with slate roofs and gable end stacks. The stone stack on the south gable of the 18th-century wing projects and has set-offs. The layout is T-shaped, with the 17th-century range to the north and the 18th-century wing. It has two storeys. The 17th-century block includes a 20th-century casement window on the south side and a doorway with a glazed door topped by a slated head. The 18th-century wing features a large round-headed stair sash window with intersecting glazing bars above nine panes per sash. There is one first-floor sash window with six panes and one 20th-century ground floor casement. The east garden front has three first-floor sashes with glazing bars, and the rightmost window has a timber lintel above a 20th-century ground floor window set in a projecting gable. Inside, there is a chamfered beam at the east end of the 17th-century wing. The kitchen wing to the north has been demolished.
Local climate
Lower Churchill Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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