Long Cross Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Long Cross Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-plinth-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Long Cross Farmhouse, Shaftesbury, SP7 8QP
- OS grid reference
- ST 851 233
- Coordinates
- 51.00914, -2.21255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Long Cross Farmhouse is a building dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is two storeys high and features three windows. The farmhouse has a slate gabled roof with flanking stacks. The front is rendered, and the windows are four panes wide set in reveals. There is a round-headed porch with a round-headed canopy that rests on square rendered piers. The entrance has a round-headed doorway with a panelled door and a fanlight that includes tracery.
Local climate
Long Cross Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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