Websley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1989. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Websley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ancient-hearth-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Websley Farmhouse, Durweston, DT11 0QG
- OS grid reference
- ST 853 074
- Coordinates
- 50.86618, -2.20968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Websley Farmhouse is a mid-19th century building that has been converted from farm cottages into a house. The front of the farmhouse is rendered, while parts of the sides and the back feature brick and flint banding, topped with slate roofs. Originally, it consisted of two cottages associated with the model farm located immediately to the west. The structure comprises two parallel blocks, each with hipped roofs that are connected at a central valley, with the front block being taller than the back.
The front elevation is two storeys high and features four windows arranged in pairs, all of which are small-paned 2-light casements with a central wooden mullion and iron lights. To the left, there is a 19th-century panelled door that is centered on the first unit. A central ridge brick stack is present, along with a cropped stack on the left return and large 20th-century casements on the right return. The back block primarily has 2-light iron casements similar to those at the front, along with a projecting one-storey hipped central extension and one eaves brick stack. The interiors have not been inspected. This farmhouse is an important part of the group associated with the model farm established by Lord Portman on his estate.
Local climate
Websley Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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