Breach Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1991. A C17 Farmhouse.
Breach Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fossil-courtyard-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Breach Farmhouse, Marnhull
- OS grid reference
- ST 815 175
- Coordinates
- 50.95676, -2.26342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Breach Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 17th century and has undergone some later alterations. The building is constructed from coursed and dressed Todber stone, featuring an ashlar front, with a 19th-century addition made of coursed rubble. The roof is a gabled mid-20th-century interlocking tile design, and there is a stone ridge stack that has been finished in mid-20th-century brick. The layout is T-shaped, with 19th-century lean-to extensions on the right (northwest) side and a lobby-entry leading into the main two-unit range. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range. It features timber and concrete lintels above a panelled door and mid-20th-century windows, along with a stone base for a single-storey open porch.
Inside, the property includes chamfered beams with a variety of stops, two 17th-century ground-floor fireplaces with chamfered jambs and timber bressummers, and a smoking/curing chamber. There are also some plank partitions on the first floor and elm floorboards in the attic, with purlins trenched into the principals of tie-beam trusses.
Local climate
Breach Farmhouse receives an average of 830 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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