School Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1957. A Post-Medieval Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
School Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-buttress-autumn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- School Farmhouse, Dunbridge Road, Lockerley, SO51 0JH
- OS grid reference
- SU 305 261
- Coordinates
- 51.03366, -1.56635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century, with an early 18th-century encasement and early 20th-century extensions and remodels. It has a timber-frame core, with brick encasing and additions, topped by an old plain tile roof. The building is two stories high and features an irregular seven-bay main block, which contains the original 16th-century Wealden house, positioned end-on to the road. At the rear, there is a double pile wing from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The front of the farmhouse has a 19th-century panel door located in the center bay, framed by an 18th-century moulded solid frame. This door is topped by a flat hood supported by carved brackets and sits under a rubbed brick arch. The center bay also features a three-light casement window, with a single casement window on one side and a two-light casement in the other bay. The first floor has seven casement windows and is marked by a raised band and wide bearded eaves. The roof is hipped with a gablet, and the road end has a hip that steps with a short length of ridge halfway up. There is a projecting external end stack, and a 20th-century lean-to at the far end.
Inside, parts of the frame are exposed. Behind the door is an early 20th-century hall, and at the road end, there is a dining room featuring 18th-century painted panelling. Behind these rooms is a much-restored late 17th-century staircase, which includes panelling below, turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newels. The far bays contain a drawing room.
Local climate
School Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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