Wood Town Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Wood Town Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ruined-span-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wood Town Farmhouse, Christchurch Road, West Parley, BH22 8SW
- OS grid reference
- SZ 090 976
- Coordinates
- 50.77829, -1.87232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Town Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 18th century, with some 19th-century features. The walls are constructed of cob, with certain areas featuring painted brickwork. It has a hipped thatch roof, with eaves that are raised above the windows. The west front elevation consists of one storey and an attic, with two windows above four. The windows are casements, and there is a plain door located beneath a hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
Wood Town Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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