Marvell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Marvell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-stair-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Marvell Farmhouse, Halstock, BA22 9SZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 550 087
- Coordinates
- 50.8763, -2.63972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marvell Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse built in the late 18th century. It features coursed stone walls with ashlar quoins and a slate roof with gable ends. The building has two storeys and dormers, with five windows that have square stone mullions, beaded with stone architraves, arranged in alternating two and three lights. The windows are fitted with 20th-century metal casements and lead lights. There are two gabled dormers with iron casements from the 19th century. The central doorway has a stone architrave and a plank door, also from the 19th century. At the rear, there is a continuous outshut with a catslide slate roof, featuring 2- and 3-light wood casements and a 19th-century plank door to the left of centre.
Inside, the former lobby entrance has been opened out. The left-hand room contains an open fireplace with stone jambs and a cambered wood lintel that has tongued stops. The ceiling beams in this room have a mid-chamfer and tongued stops. There is a boxed-in stair behind the former lobby entrance, and a secondary stair position is located in the right-hand end room.
Local climate
Marvell 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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