Berrydown Farmhouse and Attached Donkey Wheel is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Farmhouse, wellhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Berrydown Farmhouse and Attached Donkey Wheel
- WRENN ID
- late-plinth-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse, wellhouse
- Address
- Berrydown Farmhouse and Attached Donkey Wheel, Farley Chamberlayne, Hursley
- OS grid reference
- SU 401 275
- Coordinates
- 51.04635, -1.42879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Berrydown Farmhouse and the attached donkey wheel are located in Hursley and have origins dating back to the 17th century, with the main building constructed in the 18th century and altered in the 19th century. The farmhouse features a timber-frame core that is encased in brick, with most of the exterior rendered and a plain tile roof. It is a two-storey, four-bay house with a 1½ storey well house at the right end.
The entrance is located to the left of the center and includes an 18th-century two-panel door set in a solid frame, which is sheltered by a 20th-century rustic log gabled porch. On either side of the doorway are 18th-century 12-pane sash windows with segmental heads, while the right end has an early 20th-century door and a casement window. On the first floor, there are four 19th-century three-light casements, with the rightmost window featuring cast iron lozenge-pane casements. Above the center bays are gabled dormers that contain two-light cast iron lozenge-pane casements. The house has chimney stacks on the ridge to the right of center and at the left end.
To the right of the farmhouse, the well house projects forward and is constructed with 18th-century brickwork on the outside and timber framing on the inside. Its roof is half-hipped. Inside the well house, there is a 17th-century donkey wheel that has a diameter of 3 meters and a width of 1 meter, with a 4-meter-long shaft in a complete frame, capped at the well.
Local climate
Berrydown Farmhouse and Attached Donkey Wheel 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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