Lower Farmhouse and Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Farmhouse.
Lower Farmhouse and Front Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- tangled-rubblework-bittern
- 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 Farmhouse and Front Boundary Wall, Shepton Montague
- OS grid reference
- ST 682 315
- Coordinates
- 51.08221, -2.45439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed from Cary stone that is cut and squared, with ashlar dressings. It features a Welsh slate roof with plain gables and brick end chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and four bays, with the first bay being a late 19th-century extension. The first bay includes two-light single horizontal bar casement windows set in segmental arched heads, while the other bays have 12-pane sash windows in plain openings with plain ashlar lintels. There is a plain, part-glazed door located in the third bay. The interior has not been seen.
The front boundary wall is made of rubble stonework and curves out from each corner of the house, standing approximately 1.7 metres high and rising to about 2 metres high at the gateway, which features plain steps leading up to the door. There are matching farm buildings located to the rear, which take full advantage of the wedge-shaped site.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse and Front Boundary Wall 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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