Horders Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. House.
Horders Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-hall-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Horders Farmhouse, French Mill Lane, Melbury Abbas
- OS grid reference
- ST 867 207
- Coordinates
- 50.98608, -2.18959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horders Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse featuring coursed rubble walls. It has a gable-ended roof, with thatch on the left side and tiles on the right. There are brick stacks at the gables and partway along the ridge. The building is two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of four windows, primarily consisting of two-light casements with glazing bars. It is partly surrounded by later outshuts.
Local climate
Horders Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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