Townsend Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Townsend Farm House
- WRENN ID
- western-brass-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townsend Farm House, North Street, Bere Regis, BH20 7LA
- OS grid reference
- SY 851 951
- Coordinates
- 50.75567, -2.21249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Farm House is a detached farmhouse built in the late 18th century and enlarged in the 19th century. It features brick walls, with parts of the west wall covered in roughcast, and a tiled roof with brick stacks that have oversailing caps. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall. The entrance is located in the east gable wall. The main south elevation, which faces Cow Drove, has three casement windows with glazing bars on each floor, with the ground floor windows having segmental heads. There is a 19th-century single-storey addition on the north side of the main south range.
Local climate
Townsend Farm House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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