James Lears Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. A C17 Farmhouse.
James Lears Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-belfry-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- James Lears Farmhouse, Thorncombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 344 031
- Coordinates
- 50.82438, -2.93197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
James Lears Farmhouse is a farmhouse with an attached cottage, dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. The building features painted rubble walls, stone quoins, and brick dressings, topped with a thatch roof. There are two renewed brick stacks, one at each gable end. The layout suggests it may have originally been a longhouse, with the eaves and roof pitch raised in the 18th century. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three windows with wooden casements that include glazing bars. At the front, there is an outshut with a concrete pantile roof, and the rear elevation has 20th-century metal-framed windows. Inside, there are plank doors, but the interior has otherwise been refurbished.
Local climate
James Lears Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
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