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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- 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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