Wyke House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Wyke House
- WRENN ID
- distant-beam-pigeon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wyke House, Castleton, DT9 6SL
- OS grid reference
- ST 600 144
- Coordinates
- 50.92838, -2.56911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wyke House is a farmhouse with attached walls, dated 1650, and features a late 17th-century addition on the west side, noted in the spandrels of the front door. The building has dressed stone walls that are rendered, with a clay-tile roof and stone-slate eaves. The gables are finished with stone copings and scrolled kneelers, and there are 20th-century brick stacks at the gable ends.
The front elevation consists of two storeys with attics and includes seven windows with hollow-chamfered stone mullions, fitted with iron casements and fixed lead lights. The ground floor has three-light windows, while the right-hand end has four lights. The first floor features a combination of three, two, and three-light windows. A continuous string course runs above both the ground and first floor windows. The front doorway, located to the left of centre, has moulded jambs and a depressed arch set in a square head, with a label dropping down from the string course. The door is a plank-and-muntin type, studded with long strap hinges and weatherboarding. There is also a blocked doorway to the right of a straight joint, which has a renewed head.
On the south elevation, the windows are primarily three-light, with a staircase window at half-level to the right of centre that has four lights. The doorway design is similar to the front door but lacks a date, featuring a plank-and-muntin door with strap hinges.
Inside, the late 17th-century addition has some exposed ceiling beams. There is an outbuilding at the west end with rubble-stone walls and a roof made of stone-slate and clay-tile, along with a 20th-century brick stack on the gable end. This outbuilding has a three-light iron casement with lead lights and a wooden lintel above.
Additionally, two attached walls extend at right angles from the front of the house, each measuring about 25 metres in length. These walls are made of rubble stone and each has a doorway halfway along with stone chamfered jambs and a depressed-arch head, featuring plank doors that are studded.
Local climate
Wyke House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- 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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