Shorts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Shorts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-hinge-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Shorts Farmhouse, Steplake Lane, Wellow, SO51 6DX
- OS grid reference
- SU 289 211
- Coordinates
- 50.98869, -1.58941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shorts Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse that has been altered and extended in the 18th and 20th centuries. It has a timber-frame core, likely encased in brick, with brick or cob additions, all treated with a pebbledash finish, and a thatched roof. The original building comprised three bays, with a smoke or passage bay added to one end. Hip-bays were added to each end of the building, along with a 20th-century lean-to on one side. The front elevation has, to the right of centre, a smoke/passage bay containing a planked door within a slightly projecting wall, set beneath a thatched hood. To the left of centre is a three-light casement window, with two-light casements in the other bays. Above the windows is a 2-light casement within an eyebrow dormer. The roof is half-hipped.
Local climate
Shorts 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2021
- 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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