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
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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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