Farthing Gate Toll House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. Toll house.
Farthing Gate Toll House
- WRENN ID
- muted-gargoyle-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Farthing Gate Toll House, Minterne Magna
- OS grid reference
- ST 661 086
- Coordinates
- 50.8767, -2.48254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farthing Gate Toll House is a toll house built in the late 18th century. It features coursed rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof, with brick stacks at each end. The building is two storeys high and has a three-window range. On the ground floor, there are square section stone mullioned windows, and the upper floor has two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars above. The central window on the upper floor is blind and has a painted inscription.
Local climate
Farthing Gate Toll House 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2022
- No related consent applications matched
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