Marsh Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Marsh Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- graven-hall-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Marsh Farmhouse, Margaret Marsh, SP7 0AZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 821 189
- Coordinates
- 50.96967, -2.25579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marsh Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with 19th-century additions. It is constructed of rubble walls, topped with a thatched gable-ended roof and brick stacks at the left end of the ranges. The two-storey farmhouse has a five-window front, featuring 2-light casement windows with leaded lights. Historic records (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Dorset, volume IV, page 46, number 3) note the presence of stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops inside.
Local climate
Marsh 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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