Holditch Court, Tower 50 Metres South of Holditch Court Farmhouse is a Grade I listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. A {} Tower.
Holditch Court, Tower 50 Metres South of Holditch Court Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- calm-granite-frost
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Tower
- Period
- {}
- OS grid reference
- ST 344 021
- Coordinates
- 50.81518, -2.93127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holditch Court Tower, located 50 metres south of Holditch Court Farmhouse, is a Grade I listed structure that represents the remains of a fortified manor. It dates back to the 15th century and features walls made of chert rubble, with stone string courses on the corner stair-turret. The tower has an open masonry shell and includes a projecting circular stair-turret at the southwest angle, which rises above the current wall heights. The external faces of the tower show many putlog-holes, and the line of a former spiral stair is visible on the inside face of the turret.
Local climate
Holditch Court, Tower 50 Metres South of Holditch Court Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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