(Town Farmhouse) and Attached Rear Stables is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse, stables. 2 related planning applications.
(Town Farmhouse) and Attached Rear Stables
- WRENN ID
- endless-wattle-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse, stables
- Address
- (Town Farmhouse) and Attached Rear Stables, 1, Market Street, Abbotsbury, DT3 4JR
- OS grid reference
- SY 577 853
- Coordinates
- 50.66583, -2.59988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Farmhouse, dating from the mid-18th century, is attached to rear stables and located on the west side of Market Street in Abbotsbury. The building features grey ashlar stone walls with a plat band and a hipped slate roof with tile ridging. At the center of the roof, there is a brick stack. The farmhouse is two storeys high and originally had three windows, but now has two. The windows are sashes with vertical glazing bars and plain stone architraves. The front door, located on the left side, has grey stone voussoirs and consists of four recessed panels with two top lights, dating from the 19th century.
There are two blockings: one is a window immediately to the right of the front door, and the other is an entrance between the windows at the far right end, which was originally a five-meter wide entrance made of coursed rubble stone. The rear range forms an L-plan with a porch in the angle and is three storeys high, featuring three-light and two-light wooden casements with glazing bars. The rear wall of the front block has cast-iron casements, and there is a back door in the angle that is a plank door with nine glass lights and a glazed-in porch.
The attached stables at the rear have rubble-stone walls and a hipped slate roof at the left end. There is a loft above, accessible by steps leading up to a plank door. To the left, there is a single light window for the tack room, a plank door to the stables in the center, and a two-light casement on the right.
Local climate
(Town Farmhouse) and Attached Rear Stables receives an average of 840 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- 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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