The Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House. 12 related planning applications.

The Lower Farmhouse

WRENN ID
south-vestry-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1984
Type
House
Address
The Lower Farmhouse, Main Road, Drayton Parslow, MK17 0JS
OS grid reference
SP 843 287
Coordinates
51.95096, -0.77455
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lower Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, which has been altered and features an 18th-century wing at the rear, forming a T-plan. The structure is primarily timber-framed with whitewashed brick infill and a rubble stone plinth. The front of the right-hand bay has been refaced in whitewashed brick, while there is a lean-to projection on the left side. The rear wing is constructed of chequer brick and includes a moulded plinth, a modillion eaves cornice, and a coped gable with a second-floor band course. The roofs are tiled, and there is a central brick chimney with grouped shafts.

The front range consists of one storey and an attic, with four irregular bays. The central bays feature 20th-century paired barred wooden casements on the ground floor and paired leaded casements in gabled dormers. The central lobby entry has a 20th-century door set in a moulded wooden frame with a minimal board hood, while the outer bays are blank. The two-storey range at the rear has two bays, one of which contains an original sash window, with other openings having been altered. There is a lean-to with an entry at the eastern angle of the front range. Inside, the farmhouse has curved wind braces and one room features a stop-chamfered spine beam and joists.

Local climate

The Lower Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 12 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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