Blatchford's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. Farmhouse.
Blatchford's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-eave-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Blatchford's Farmhouse, Fontmell Magna
- OS grid reference
- ST 838 185
- Coordinates
- 50.96627, -2.23179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blatchford's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with 19th-century alterations and a south front. It is constructed of coursed rubble with an ashlar south front and has a tiled roof featuring brick stacks at the gable ends and to the left of the door. The building is L-shaped and likely began as a three-room cross-passage plan, with the cross-passage backing onto the stack. It has one and a half storeys and an irregular range of four windows on the ground floor. The south front features 2-light casements with glazing bars in chamfered stone surrounds, set under relieving arches. There is a plank door located in the second bay from the left, which is sheltered by a 19th-century porch. The rear of the building includes some leaded lights. Inside, there is a nine-panel ceiling made of intersecting, deep chamfered beams.
Local climate
Blatchford's Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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