The Lower Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Detached house. 4 related planning applications.

The Lower Farm

WRENN ID
pitched-corridor-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1952
Type
Detached house
Address
The Lower Farm, Compton Abdale, GL54 4DS
OS grid reference
SP 058 166
Coordinates
51.84878, -1.91685
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lower Farm is a former farmhouse that has been converted into a detached house. It dates from the late 18th century, with early and late 19th-century extensions. The building is constructed from coursed squared and dressed limestone, with the left gable end of the main body refaced in ashlar. It features a stone slate roof and ashlar stacks.

The main section is two storeys high with an attic and has a six-bay, five-windowed facade. The windows include single light, two-light, and three-light stone-mullioned casements with leaded panes. There is a Cotswold dormer located off-centre to the right, which is also lit by a two-light stone-mullioned casement. The entrance is a double 20th-century plank door located off-centre to the left, topped with a leaded hall-light. This door is sheltered by a flat stone canopy with a moulded margin and bracket.

On the left gable end, there is a Venetian window with leaded panes and a plain architrave on the ground floor, while the first floor features a three-light stone-mullioned casement with a plain architrave and stopped hood. A two-light stone-mullioned garret window is also present. The late 19th-century extension is lit by three-light casements set within segmental-headed surrounds, with access provided by a stable-type door that has a projecting segmental canopy supported by decorative wrought iron brackets. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Lower Farm receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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