Abbots Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Abbots Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
leaning-groin-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 June 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Abbots Hill Farmhouse, Halstock, BA22 9SY
OS grid reference
ST 550 081
Coordinates
50.87096, -2.63975
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbots Hill Farmhouse is an attached farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century. It features coursed rubble stone walls with rusticated ashlar quoins and a slate roof with gable ends, stone gable copings, and moulded kneelers. There are early 20th-century brick stacks at the gable ends. The building is two storeys high and has three windows with square stone mullions that are beaded and have moulded architraves and integral cills. The windows are of three lights, with a two-light window at the centre of the upper storey, all dating from the 18th century. The metal casements with glazing bars are from the 20th century. The central doorway features a beaded stone architrave and a plank door, with a 19th-century brick porch. There are outshuts at the north and south gable ends, each with pentice slate roofs.

Local climate

Abbots Hill 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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