50, Lower Keyford is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Cottage.
50, Lower Keyford
- WRENN ID
- third-footing-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 50, Lower Keyford, Frome
- OS grid reference
- ST 776 470
- Coordinates
- 51.2225, -2.32179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
50 Lower Keyford is a late 17th-century cottage that stands at 1½ storeys with two gables, built from local rubble. It is an excellent example of vernacular architecture in the area. The left gable features a pair of glazing sashes on the first floor, while the right gable has a glazing sash on the ground floor and a blocked window on the second floor. The windows have wooden lintels. The central door is framed by a double ogee stopped surround and features a studied original door. At the rear, there are two gables with two-light glazing bar sash windows, and the left gable has an ovolo moulded wood surround. There is also a studied back door.
Inside, the cottage has a through-passage with three doors, all featuring stopped ovolo surrounds. The ground floor room to the north includes a very large fireplace with a high ovolo moulded chimney piece above, and there is a carved stop on the axial beam chamfer. A winder stair is positioned against the stack, leading to the first floor, with an incised surround to the doorway and large rustic turned balusters on the landing. The central doorway on the first floor also has a stopped ovolo surround.
Local climate
50, Lower Keyford receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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