Middle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. House. 1 related planning application.

Middle Farmhouse

WRENN ID
deep-wattle-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
House
Address
Middle Farmhouse, Fifehead Hill, Fifehead Magdalen, SP8 5RR
OS grid reference
ST 776 212
Coordinates
50.99024, -2.31969
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Middle Farmhouse is a 17th-century house with rubble walls and a tiled, gable-ended roof featuring end brick stacks. The facade is nearly symmetrical and includes 2, 3, and 4-light hollow chamfered, square-headed, stone-mullioned windows, with labels above the ground floor windows. A central doorway has a 4-centred arch and continuously chamfered jambs. At the rear, there is an 18th-century wing. Inside, the layout includes a central cross passage flanked by plank and muntin partitions.

Local climate

Middle Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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