Naish Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. A Medieval Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Naish Farmhouse

WRENN ID
endless-keep-laurel
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Medieval
Address
Naish Farmhouse, Stoney Lane, Holwell, DT9 5LJ
OS grid reference
ST 705 112
Coordinates
50.89974, -2.41998
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Naish Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations and additions made in the 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It features rubble walls and a thatched roof, which is gable-ended to the right and hipped to the left. There is a brick stack on the right side and another partway along the left eaves. The building has two storeys and a three to four window range, with three and four-light casements that include horizontal glazing bars. The entrance is a part-glazed plain wooden door.

The internal layout consists of a three-room cross passage plan, created by inserting a stack into an open hall house. Notable internal features include a 15th-century north door made of elm planks with a two-centred head, a 15th-century timber partition with doorways leading to former service rooms, and a 15th-century doorway to the solar undercroft. There is a 16th-century partition and door separating the hall from the through passage. The hall contains deep chamfered beams and wall-plates that intersect, along with a first-floor fireplace featuring a chamfered four-centred wooden head and stop-chamfered stone jambs. The roof has six trusses, with the second and fifth from the south-west being framed as partition-trusses, while the others are jointed cruck trusses. The south-western truss is likely a later addition.

Local climate

Naish Farmhouse 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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