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
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Brown Farmhouse, Huish Champflower, TA4 2EL
- OS grid reference
- ST 022 312
- Coordinates
- 51.07188, -3.39642
- 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.
Local climate
Lower Brown Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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