The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. House.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hidden-rampart-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, Newtown Road, Verwood
- OS grid reference
- SU 093 087
- Coordinates
- 50.8784, -1.86892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse is a detached house that was formerly a farmhouse, likely dating from the early 18th century. It may have originally been an end-chimney long-house with a byre at the left end. The original section features plastered cob walls, a hipped thatched roof, and a brick stack at the right end. The house is one storey with an attic and includes a lean-to porch with a thatched catslide roof; the door has been replaced by a casement window. The front wall is buttressed, and there is a 20th-century part glazed door. The ground floor has three casements with glazing bars, while the attic contains two dormers with casements that have a centre horizontal bar.
At the right end, there is a later addition, probably from the 19th century, which is two storeys high with plastered walls and a slate roof. This addition includes a brick porch with a gabled tiled roof; the door has also been replaced by a casement with glazing bars. The ground floor features one casement with glazing bars, and the first floor has one top-hung window. To the right of this addition is a lean-to with plastered walls and a slate roof, which has a part glazed door and one casement with glazing bars. At the left end, there is another lean-to with a thatched catslide roof and one plain casement. Inside the original house, there is a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and an inserted bread oven, and the original roof structure is still intact.
Local climate
The Old 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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