Body Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1987. Farmhouse.
Body Farm
- WRENN ID
- final-rood-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Body Farm, Nutburn Lane, North Baddesley
- OS grid reference
- SU 400 208
- Coordinates
- 50.98603, -1.4305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Body Farm is a farmhouse that may have originally been a mid-16th century hall-house, with alterations made in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed with brick infill and recasing from the 18th and 19th centuries. The roof is covered with plain tiles, hipped at the west end and gabled at the east end, featuring a ridge stack and an external gable stack. The layout follows a lobby-entry plan.
The south front has two storeys and four bays. There is an off-centre doorway with a cambered arch and a 20th-century door. To the left of the doorway is a two-light casement window with a cambered arch, followed by a brick buttress. To the right, there is a three-light casement and then another two-light casement, both with cambered arches, followed by another brick buttress. Above these, from left to right, are a two-light casement, a single-light casement, and a three-light casement, all of which are 20th-century casements.
The north elevation features a continuous outshut of 19th-century brick and retains some wattle and daub infill in its upper framing. Inside, there is a large central stack, and the upper floors were likely inserted in the late 17th century. The ground floor displays chamfered and flat-stopped main beams and joists, while substantial visible remains of the timber frame can be seen on the first floor. The roof has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Local climate
Body Farm receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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