Lower Grants Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Grants Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-flagstone-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Grants Farmhouse, Grants Lane, Wiveliscombe, TA4 2RH
- OS grid reference
- ST 089 287
- Coordinates
- 51.05092, -3.30072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Grant's Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse situated on the east side of Grant’s Lane, near Ford, Wiveliscombe Without. The building is constructed of cob and rendered rubble with a gabled thatched roof. It has an external rendered stepped chimney stack on the right-hand side and a brick chimney stack on the left. The farmhouse has two storeys and a 1:1:2 bay arrangement. The ground floor features sash windows with glazing bars. The upper floor has 2-light casement windows breaking through the eaves, with weatherboarded gables. A 20th-century glazed brick porch with a gabled corrugated iron roof and a 20th-century door is located centrally, and a gabled wooden porch with a corrugated iron roof and a plank door sits to the left.
Local climate
Lower Grants Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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