Sturt Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Sturt Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- wild-cellar-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sturt Farmhouse, Stalbridge, DT10 2SE
- OS grid reference
- ST 726 168
- Coordinates
- 50.95019, -2.39009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sturt Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof that includes one hipped end and one gable end. A 19th-century gabled wing projects to the right. The original part of the farmhouse is two storeys high and has three symmetrical bays. It features 2-light windows flanked by 3-light stone mullioned windows, which have hollow chamfered mullions and surrounds. The left ground floor window has later wooden mullions and is set in the original opening, while the central window is a later addition that replaced the original doorway. All ground floor windows have square labels. The first floor windows are similar, but the central window is modern. To the right, there is a single bay from an 18th-century addition, which has a 3-light hollow chamfered stone mullioned window on the first floor. Below this window is a door with a four-centre head in a square surround, featuring moulded head and jambs. This door may have been relocated from the centre of the original range, and it is topped by a hood made from a single stone flag. Inside, the farmhouse has many deep chamfered beams, and one doorway features a chamfered head and chamfered shouldered jambs. Several windows have leaded lights secured with vertical iron bars.
Local climate
Sturt Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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