Church Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.

Church Farm House

WRENN ID
gilded-gargoyle-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Church Farm House, Melbury Abbas, Shaftesbury, SP7 0EA
OS grid reference
ST 882 201
Coordinates
50.98025, -2.16834
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farm House is a mid-19th century house built with an ashlar facade and a tiled roof. It is constructed in the Tudor style and has ashlar stacks with moulded caps positioned along the ridge. The house is two storeys high with an irregular arrangement of windows. These are stone mullioned windows, with two and three lights, and returned labels above. A door is situated in the second bay from the right. Above the eaves, a two-sided stone oriel window projects as a dormer, and a further dormer window is located to the left.

Local climate

Church Farm House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • 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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