Dumworth Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1986. Farm house.
Dumworth Farm House
- WRENN ID
- south-sentry-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1986
- Type
- Farm house
- Address
- Dumworth Farm House, Townsend Road, Aldworth
- OS grid reference
- SU 552 794
- Coordinates
- 51.51112, -1.20546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dumworth Farm House is a farm house that dates back to the 16th century, with alterations and additions made in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of brick, with render on the south side of the central block, and features tiled roofs. The layout is roughly L-shaped, with a central 16th-century block running east to west, a 19th-century flat-roofed extension across the north side, and a 16th-century crosswing that was reworked in the 19th century, which has a 20th-century extension to the south. There is also a 19th-century extension at the eastern end of the central block, linked by a 20th-century block to a former 18th-century brew house to the south.
The main blocks are two storeys high, while the south blocks are one and a half storeys. The east side features three hipped 20th-century dormers, and there are two hipped 20th-century dormers on the west side of the south block. The chimneys include an end chimney to the south of the south block, a ridge chimney to the east of the central block, and a chimney on the north slope of the west block.
On the east elevation, the left side has a low block with two three-light casements with cambered heads and two 20th-century dormers. The center features a 20th-century link block, while the right side has a taller 19th-century block with three glazing bar sashes, the ground floor sashes having marginal glazing. There is a half-glazed 20th-century door under a flat hood in the link block.
The south elevation shows a 20th-century extension on the left with a two-light casement above a French casement. The center has the rendered 16th-century block with irregular casements, two two-light 19th-century casements on the first floor, and two-light and three-light 20th-century casements on the ground floor, along with a 20th-century extension at the junction with the right-hand block. The right side features a lower block with a one-storey tiled roof extension and two casements on the first floor.
Local climate
Dumworth Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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