West Hembury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. A C18 Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
West Hembury Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-flue-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Hembury Farmhouse, Hembury Lane, Askerswell, DT2 9EN
- OS grid reference
- SY 524 930
- Coordinates
- 50.73523, -2.67517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Hembury Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dated G B 1749, with 20th-century alterations. The building features coursed rubble stone walls and large stone quoins. It has a thatched roof with stone gable copings and scrolled kneelers, along with brick stacks at each gable and at the rear wing gable. The house is designed in a T-plan layout and has two storeys on the south elevation. There are four windows, which are three-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars and no cills, along with one 20th-century three-light hardwood casement. The central door is a 20th-century metal door, and there is another 20th-century metal door in the rear angle. Additionally, there is a blocked oculus on the rear gable end.
Local climate
West Hembury Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 5 applications
- 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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