Gorwell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse.
Gorwell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- waiting-rampart-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Gorwell Farmhouse, Long Bredy and Kingston Russell
- OS grid reference
- SY 574 871
- Coordinates
- 50.68258, -2.60344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gorwell Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse built in the mid-19th century, incorporating re-used materials from the 17th century. The building features rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins and has a 19th-century slate roof with boxed eaves and gable ends, which has a shallow pitch. There are projecting stacks and rendered chimneys on the south and north gable ends, as well as a rendered stack on the east front gable.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has four windows on the main elevation, plus one window on the return wing at the north end. The windows are sashes with stone cills and concreted architraves. The front gable at the north end includes a blocked 2-light stone mullion window with hollow chamfers and a returned label above it. The north wall has 2-light and 3-light stone mullions with lead lights, while the rear walls feature 2- and 3-light cast-iron casements with segmental brick arches above.
A two-storey porch on the front elevation has a doorway with moulded jambs and head, and the straight-chamfered stops are adorned with carved vases. The inner door shares the same design for its jambs and head, both dating back to the 17th century.
Local climate
Gorwell Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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