Liberty Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Farmhouse.
Liberty Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- peeling-pinnacle-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Liberty Farmhouse, Halstock
- OS grid reference
- ST 556 083
- Coordinates
- 50.87312, -2.63131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Liberty Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, with an 18th-century service range added to the northeast, which was refenestrated in the 19th century. There is also a 19th-century outhouse at the west end. The building features rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins and a thatch roof that is both half-hipped and hipped. The chimney stacks include a stone stack with a brick cap at the east end of the ridge, a stone stack with a moulded cornice from the 18th century at the center ridge, and a brick stack at the west end of the ridge. The farmhouse is 1.5 storeys high and has five windows with irregular fenestration, including two 4-light ovolo-moulded stone mullions on the south side and wood-framed iron casements with lead lights.
On the north elevation, there is a plank door from the 18th century to the left of center leading into a former cross-passage, and a 20th-century plank door towards the right end leading into the outhouse. The service range has brick-dressed windows with 2-light wood casements. Inside, the room to the left of the cross-passage features an open fireplace with a cambered wood lintel, and the staircase is positioned immediately to the left of the fireplace, consisting of a half-spiral wooden stair with a doorcase. The ceiling beam is slightly chamfered, and there is 18th-century fielded-panel cupboard built into the alcove across the corner of the room.
Local climate
Liberty Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% 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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