Friar Waddon Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Friar Waddon Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-merlon-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Friar Waddon Farmhouse, Portesham, DT3 4EP
OS grid reference
SY 641 858
Coordinates
50.67077, -2.50861
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Friar Waddon Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century. It features rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins and a slate roof that has gable ends, stone gable copings, and scroll kneelers. There are 20th-century brick stacks at each gable. The building has two storeys with attics and a regular arrangement of three windows. The windows are three-light stone mullions that are hollow-chamfered and have separate labels above them. The ground floor has a central opening with moulded jambs and a separate label over, leading to a 20th-century door with a three-light head and lead lights.

The rear elevation retains three 17th-century stone mullions on the upper floor, which are also hollow-chamfered with separate labels, and these have 20th-century wooden casements. There is a 19th-century extension to the west, constructed of rubble-stone with a slate roof, consisting of two bays and two storeys. This extension features two-light 20th-century wooden casements with segmental arches above. There are three outshuts at the rear, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, built with the same materials and pentice roofs, and they include 20th-century plank doors in the central and north-west outshut side walls.

Local climate

Friar Waddon Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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