Lower Church Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Church Farm House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-ashlar-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Church Farm House, Charlton Musgrove, BA9 8ES
- OS grid reference
- ST 720 301
- Coordinates
- 51.07021, -2.39993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1738, constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, which is now colourwashed, set on a local stone rubble base. It features a plain clay tile roof that is half hipped at the west end and has a plain gable at the east end, with brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. The building has a "T"-plan, stands two storeys with an attic, and consists of four bays, with the west bay possibly being an early addition.
The south facade includes a plinth and a band course, with segmental arched windows that have what appear to be original frames fitted with early 20th-century small pane casements below and matching flat-headed windows above, all of which are two-light. There is a brick and tile porch at bay three, featuring an early part-glazed outer door and a plain 18th-century six-panel inner door.
At the rear, there is a 18th-century projection that is half hipped, with leaded attic windows suggesting the original form of the remainder of the house. Inside, the main room has a fireplace with an arched timber beam and stop-chamfered beams in the ceiling. The roof frame is a collar truss design, with one collar signed: W W 1738. The farmhouse was originally part of the Ilchester Estate, and the bricks may have originated from a small kiln in Shepton Montague.
Local climate
Lower Church Farm House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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