Churchill's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. A C17 House.
Churchill's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-grate-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Churchill's Farmhouse, Shalfleet
- OS grid reference
- SZ 397 867
- Coordinates
- 50.6791, -1.43904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Churchill's Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, likely built in the early 17th century with alterations made in the late 17th century and further changes in the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a slate roof with end brick chimneystacks. The building has two storeys and a basement, with three windows. It is an early example of an end stack house.
On the first floor, there are three 17th-century mullioned windows. The ground floor has lost its original windows, but the hood moulding remains, and the current windows are smaller mid-19th century six-paned sashes with patches of brickwork on the sides. There is a central porch with a gable and kneelers. The rear elevation includes an outshut and a slate inscribed "1666 Londinium."
Inside, the farmhouse has a cellar that features a bread oven, a stone chimneypiece with a wooden bressumer, a crane for pots, and wattle and daub walls. The kitchen on the ground floor has an ovolo-moulded spine beam with lambs tongue stops and raised plank panelling. The parlour contains a fire window stone fireplace with a wooden bressumer and an overmantel that was originally plastered in the centre, flanked by elaborate carved wooden pilasters. Above the pilasters is another ovolo-moulded spine beam with lambs tongue stop and bulbous pendant decoration. The panelling in the parlour dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century.
Local climate
Churchill's Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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