Quarr Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Farmhouse.

Quarr Farm House

WRENN ID
waiting-vestry-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Quarr Farm House, Worth Matravers
OS grid reference
SY 989 796
Coordinates
50.61695, -2.01648
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Quarr Farm House is a detached farmhouse with origins in the 17th century, which was extended to the west in the 18th century. The earlier section of the house appears to have originally extended further east. It features rubble stone walls, stone slate roofs, and brick stacks, and is two storeys high. In the earlier section, the original doorway has been blocked, and a 20th-century metal window has been inserted. On the first floor, there is a 5-light stone mullioned window, with the centre light blocked, and to the west of this is a similar 2-light window. The 18th-century section to the west is taller and has a gabled porch with a slate roof and a canted stone lintel. Both the ground and first floors of this section have two casement windows with glazing bars, with the ground floor windows featuring projecting stone lintels. At the east end of the 17th-century section, there are two projecting piers, which may have served as gatepiers to a former courtyard. The main ground floor room in the 18th-century section has a classical styled stone fireplace surround, dated 1651, which has been moved from the 17th-century section. Another ground floor room contains a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and a bread oven.

Local climate

Quarr Farm House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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