Lower Brown Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Brown Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hushed-arch-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Brown Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse that was rebuilt at the rear in the mid-20th century. The building features roughcast over rubble with a slate-hung facade and a shallow pitch slate roof with overhanging eaves. There are brick stacks at the gable ends, an external stack with offsets on the left gable end, and another brick stack located between the first and second bays on the left.
The plan consists of a development of a three-cell and cross passage layout, with a staircase set in the through passage and a two-storey outshot at the rear. The farmhouse is two storeys high with three bays on the left and one bay on the right. The first floor has 16-pane sash windows flanking a 12-pane window above the entrance, while the right end bay features a 20th-century window. The ground floor has flat lead-roofed canted bays with 16-pane sash windows flanking a gabled porch that has a segmental-headed opening and a flush panel inner door, with a 20th-century window in the right end bay. The rear elevation has 20th-century fenestration.
Inside, there are moulded arch heads to the stairway and cellar entrance, but otherwise, the interior lacks dateable features. The presence of the external stack suggests that an earlier dwelling may have been incorporated into the structure. This hamlet is documented as an early medieval settlement.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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