Garage to Penny Farthing is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1986. Garage. 2 related planning applications.

Garage to Penny Farthing

WRENN ID
broken-pewter-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1986
Type
Garage
Address
Garage to Penny Farthing, Lillington, DT9 6QX
OS grid reference
ST 628 127
Coordinates
50.91294, -2.52923
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a former village school, now serving as a garage for the mid-20th century house known as Penny Farthing. It dates from the mid-19th century and features rubble stone walls and a fish-scale tile roof with ornamental bargeboard. The structure is single-storey. On the road front, there is a battened door with a fanlight that has lattice glazing. Additionally, there is one four-light timber mullioned window with a moulded lintel and casements also featuring lattice glazing. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Garage to Penny Farthing 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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