Elcombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. A Georgian Farmhouse.
Elcombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- north-landing-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Elcombe Farmhouse, Netherbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 492 968
- Coordinates
- 50.76866, -2.72047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elcombe Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century. It features dressed stone walls and a slate roof with gable ends and stone gable copings. There is a reconstituted stone stack on the left gable, which is a 20th-century addition, while the right gable has a stack embrasure with the stack removed from the top. The building has two storeys and five windows, which are 2-light wooden casements with glazing bars that have been renewed in the 20th century. A 3-light casement is located at the north end on the ground floor.
The farmhouse has a stone porch with stone gable coping and an ornamental apex block. The entrance is square with moulded jambs and heads, and there is a projecting heart-shaped stone above the entrance featuring an unfinished inscription: "Hec bomus Aedific" (sic). Each side of the porch has an oval moulded stone window. The front door is a two-leaf design with recess-fielded panels and a wooden frame, dating back to the 18th century.
On the south gable end, there is an original outshut with stone gable coping and a moulded kneeler, topped with a slate pentice roof. Above this, there is an 18th-century attic window with a 2-light stone mullion and a moulded label above it.
Inside, the farmhouse retains a very intact 18th-century interior, featuring extensive fielded panelling in both the ground and first floor rooms. The kitchen, which was formerly located in the left ground floor, includes a built-in 18th-century dresser and shelves. The lobby entrance leads to a continuous newel stair with bulbous balusters and a rolled handrail, also from the 18th century, surrounding a small central stairwell.
Local climate
Elcombe Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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