Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- frozen-render-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, Kingsbury Episcopi, TA13 5HA
- OS grid reference
- ST 414 186
- Coordinates
- 50.96391, -2.8349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse constructed from coursed and squared Hamstone. It features a 19th-century double-Roman tiled roof and brick stacks, along with a 20th-century skylight. The building is positioned at right angles to the highway and consists of two storeys and an attic, with four bays. It has two and three-light moulded stone-mullioned windows on the ground floor, which are adorned with stopped labels, iron casements, and square-paned leaded lights. The door opening to the third bay is framed by a moulded 4-centred architrave and includes a wooden floor and a plank door with iron strap hinges. Additionally, there are stone-mullioned windows on the return to the roadside, as noted in an unpublished report from the Victoria Archaeological Group in 1976.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 7 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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