Ryall's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. Farmhouse.
Ryall's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- deep-spandrel-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ryall's Farmhouse, Gussage St. Michael
- OS grid reference
- ST 981 126
- Coordinates
- 50.91296, -2.0282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ryall's Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It has origins from the 16th century, with additions and alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The building features a mix of materials, including part rubble and flint with ashlar quoins, part timber-frame, and part brick, all topped with tiled roofs. It has large, two-stage chimney breasts at each end, which terminate in paired brick flues set diagonally, forming an L-plan. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range, with two-light casements featuring horizontal glazing bars on the upper floor and similar three-light windows on the ground floor. A central 19th-century gabled porch with a glazed door is present, while a former porch that included a stair tower at the rear is now blocked.
Inside, the south room of the east range has an open fireplace with a chamfered timber bressummer that has a raised center, along with chamfered stone jambs featuring run-out stops. There is a niche beside the north fireplace that contains 18th-century woodwork with a moulded architrave and fluted pilasters. The first floor includes various early doorways leading to the rooms, and there is a partition with an original window by the staircase.
Local climate
Ryall's Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 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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