Home Farm Buildings Approximately 150 Metres North East of St Giles House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1986. A Early Modern Farm buildings.
Home Farm Buildings Approximately 150 Metres North East of St Giles House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-rubblework-cedar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1986
- Type
- Farm buildings
- Period
- Early Modern
- OS grid reference
- SU 033 116
- Coordinates
- 50.90474, -1.95436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of farm buildings consisting of a riding house, stables, barns, and ancillary structures, arranged around a courtyard. The riding house dates to the early 17th century, while the other buildings originate from the early 16th century, with subsequent alterations and remodeling in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
The riding house is constructed of Flemish bond brickwork with a tiled roof, featuring stone gable copings and a brick stack on the left. It has ashlar quoins and a symmetrical south front of nine bays, with alternate bays gabled and featuring shaped kneelers, moulded copings, and obelisk finials. The front has four ground-floor stone windows, each with four elliptically headed lights and ovolo-moulded mullions. Small square-headed stone windows are located on the upper floor. A central elliptically headed doorway is framed by a chamfered ashlar surround. The rear elevation is irregular, with some timber mullioned windows and wrought iron casements with leaded lights. The doors have reset 17th-century timber spandrels incorporating carved pendants and grotesque masks. A gabled brick gateway in the 17th century connects the riding house to the other ranges to the west.
The remaining buildings are timber-framed, with some areas weather-boarded and others refaced in brick during the 17th and 18th centuries. They have tiled roofs and feature shouldered, braced uprights supporting collared tie-beam trusses with cambered tie-beams and queen struts. In places, the original flint plinth with weathered greens and ashlar buttresses has been retained. The south gable of the west range was rebuilt in the 17th century to match the riding house. The east facade of this same range was refaced in brick in the early 18th century and incorporates casement windows of that period, with molded timber frames and leaded lights. The northern range features a transeptal exit porch to the north. The south end of the east range was rebuilt in the 19th century as a pair of brick cottages.
Internally, the buildings retain stalls, loose boxes, and other fittings from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The farm buildings represent a remarkably complete and architecturally impressive example of an early farm complex.
Local climate
Home Farm Buildings Approximately 150 Metres North East of St Giles House 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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