Middlebere Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Middlebere Farm House

WRENN ID
lone-rood-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Middlebere Farm House, Arne
OS grid reference
SY 968 863
Coordinates
50.67654, -2.04598
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Middlebere Farm House is a detached farmhouse dating from the 17th century, possibly originally a long-house. It features rubble stone walls and a thatched roof, with one brick end stack and another backing onto the cross-passage. The building is one storey with an attic and has a three-room and cross-passage plan. The cross-passage and lower room have been rebuilt in brick on a stone base, likely replacing a former byre. There is a ledged door into the passage.

On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with glazing bars and one 20th-century metal window. The attic contains three half-dormers with casements that also have glazing bars. An attached stable range to the south, made of stone, appears to have been reduced in height. To the north, there is a 19th-century attached cottage with plastered brick walls and a slate roof, also one storey with an attic. This cottage has a ledged door, two ground floor casement windows with glazing bars, and two gabled dormers in the attic with similar casements.

Inside, there is a plank and muntin partition between the hall and parlour, some chamfered ceiling beams, and large open fireplaces in both the hall and parlour, which have been partly built up.

Local climate

Middlebere Farm House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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