West Orchard Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1959. Farmhouse.
West Orchard Farm House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-zinc-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1959
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Orchard Farm House, Church Knowle
- OS grid reference
- SY 941 807
- Coordinates
- 50.62659, -2.08468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Orchard Farm House is a detached farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to the early 17th century, with extensions added to the east in the 18th century and to the west in the 19th century. The building features rubble stone walls and a stone slate roof that is half-hipped at the east end. It has three stone stacks on the ridge, one of which has been enlarged in brick. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three casement windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor, along with a pair of French doors in the east extension. There is evidence of earlier, blocked windows. At the rear, a lean-to has stone walls and a roof that is part tiled and part stone-slated. The main ground floor room in the original section includes a moulded stone fireplace surround with a four-centred arch, while there are two similar but simpler fireplaces on the first floor. An arched doorway is located in the west wall of the original section.
Local climate
West Orchard Farm House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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