Higher Lewell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse. 13 related planning applications.
Higher Lewell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scarred-alcove-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Lewell Farmhouse, West Knighton, DT2 8PF
- OS grid reference
- SY 734 875
- Coordinates
- 50.68722, -2.37789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Lewell Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating back to the 17th century, largely rebuilt in the 1760s and bearing the date "RSP 176" in vitrified brick headers. Further extensions were added in the mid-19th century to the west and east. The farmhouse is constructed of squared rubble walls with brickwork in Flemish bond to much of the ground and first floors. A plat band sits above the first-floor windows. The 19th-century extensions are built with Broadmayne brick. The main house has clay tile roofs with gable ends, while the remainder has slate roofs. Rendered stacks are present on the left gable, with brick stacks on the ridge, centrally, and on the right slate gable.
The original part of the house is two storeys high and has three windows on the first floor, including a sash window and an elliptical bay window projecting over the porch, which is made up of four casement windows with glazing bars. The ground floor features a plank front door with two glazed lights (likely 19th and 20th century), a canted bay window with sashes, and a 19th-century bay window. A two-storey extension to the west has three-light wood and cast-iron casement windows. Attached stables and a cart shed at the east end have brick walls and a slate roof. A stable door with a plank door is present, along with a carriage entrance to the right, featuring two-leaf plank doors and a segmental arch.
Local climate
Higher Lewell Farmhouse 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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