The Long House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1982. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Long House
- WRENN ID
- broken-latch-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Long House, 19, Fifehead Hill, Fifehead Magdalen, SP8 5RR
- OS grid reference
- ST 773 210
- Coordinates
- 50.98883, -2.32467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Long House is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed of rubble walls and has a thatched roof, with a hipped roof to the left and a gabled roof to the right. Brick stacks are located on the right gable and near the centre of the ridge. The house is two storeys high and has a roughly two-window front. It features 20th-century two-light casement windows.
Internal features documented by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (RCHM) include an open fireplace with a chamfered four-centred timber bressummer and chamfered stone jambs, together with a ceiling of intersecting chamfered ceiling beams and wall plates. The house may have medieval origins.
Local climate
The Long House receives an average of 830 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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