Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A C18 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tilted-cloister-brook
- 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 Farmhouse, Chilton Cantelo, BA22 8BD
- OS grid reference
- ST 569 215
- Coordinates
- 50.99213, -2.61476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed from local stone that has been cut and squared, featuring a brick facade with Ham stone dressings above a high stone plinth. The roof is made of plain clay tiles and has coped gables, with brick chimney stacks at either end. The building has a double, parallel ridged roof and is two storeys high with attics and a partly exposed basement, comprising three bays.
The central entrance features a six-panel door with four glazed panels, set within a simple surround that has a flat stone hood supported by console brackets. The windows are three-light with flat beaded mullions and surrounds, although later sashes have been inserted. There are also three-light mullioned windows with ovolo moulding visible at the basement level. The south gables display prominent stepped stacks and a cast lead rainwater stackhead, while the north side has an old boarded door leading to the basement and gable attic windows on both sides. At the rear, there is a brick lean-to. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Lower Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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