Lower Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Lower Farm House
- WRENN ID
- former-arch-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farm House, High Street, Rimpton, BA22 8AB
- OS grid reference
- ST 608 219
- Coordinates
- 50.99559, -2.55907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farm House is a farmhouse built in 1700. It is constructed from local stone that is cut and squared, resembling almost ashlar, with Ham stone dressings. The roof features Bridgwater patent triple angle clay tiles and has coped gables with brick end chimney stacks. The building has a double roof, is two stories high, and consists of three bays.
The entrance door, located between the first and second bays, has a moulded cambered arch and a 20th-century glazed door set in a recess. Between the second and third bays, there is a 16-pane sliding sash window with a timber lintel. Below bay one and in all bays above, there are cruciform ovolo mould mullioned and transomed windows without hoods, but with a string course at the head of the ground floor windows. There is a buttress with offsets on the left side of the house.
To the east of the main house, set well back, is a 19th-century two-story extension that matches the main building. This extension features plain doors and casement windows, with segmental voussoired arches on the ground floor.
Local climate
Lower Farm House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 5 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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