Lewell Mill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1986. A C19 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lewell Mill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- wild-attic-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lewell Mill Farmhouse, West Knighton, DT2 8AN
- OS grid reference
- SY 738 899
- Coordinates
- 50.7086, -2.37183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lewell Mill Farmhouse is an attached farmhouse dating from the early 19th century. It features brick walls laid in Flemish bond and a slate roof with gable ends. There is a brick stack on the ridge, positioned left of center. The building is two storeys high and has four windows on the ground floor, arranged as two sets of two light windows, and a similar arrangement on the first floor. The ground floor windows are 19th century cast iron casements with iron glazing bars, segmental brick arches, and wooden sills. At the right-hand end, there are 20th century casements. A plank door is located at the center, leading to a brick porch that has an arched opening and a gabled slate roof. At the rear, there is a continuous brick outshut with 19th century iron casements.
Local climate
Lewell Mill Farmhouse receives an average of 840 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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