East Elworth Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse.

East Elworth Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sombre-rafter-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Farmhouse
Address
East Elworth Farmhouse, Abbotsbury
OS grid reference
SY 601 846
Coordinates
50.66018, -2.56457
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

East Elworth Farmhouse is a detached former farmhouse dating from the mid 17th century. It features rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins and a slate roof that has stone gable copings and ovolo-moulded kneelers. The gable ends have been fitted with rebuilt stone stacks from the 20th century. The south elevation has two storeys with dormers, including two windows with three-light stone mullions that are hollow-chamfered, and one four-light window on the right. Each window has separate labels and wooden casements. Above the front door, there is a 20th-century bull's eye window. The front has three 20th-century dormers with two-light wooden casements, leaded glass, and hipped slate roofs. The front doorway is located to the right of the centre and features a depressed-arch head with straight chamfered jambs, leading to a 20th-century plank door.

The rear (north range) is also from the 17th century and may have originally been part of a unit system. It has two storeys and two windows with two-light stone mullions, although the west side has undergone 20th-century refenestration. Originally, this range was a two-unit structure that included an open fireplace and a bread oven at the north end. A 20th-century continuous outshut has been added in the angle, incorporating re-set 17th-century jambs and the head of a doorway, which also has a plank door.

Local climate

East Elworth 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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