Almshouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1961. A Victorian House.
Almshouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-latch-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1961
- Type
- House
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Almshouse Farmhouse, Hermitage
- OS grid reference
- ST 650 081
- Coordinates
- 50.87212, -2.49829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Almshouse Farmhouse is a house that was extensively rebuilt in 1849. It features coursed rubble walls with ashlar dressings and has tiled roofs with gable ends, which are topped with stone copings and ashlar end stacks. The building is designed in a 'Jacobethan' style and has a T-plan layout with one and a half storeys. To the left, there is a staged stack that includes a date plaque. The ground floor has stone mullioned and transomed windows with 2 and 4 lights. Additionally, there is a doorway to the left with a 4-centred head. Above, two gabled dormers are present, each with 3-light stone mullioned windows.
Local climate
Almshouse 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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