Fernbrooke Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. Farmhouse.
Fernbrooke Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-dormer-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fernbrooke Farmhouse, Shaftesbury Road, Motcombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 836 240
- Coordinates
- 51.0157, -2.23419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fernbrooke Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1848. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings and features tiled roofs with end ashlar stacks and stone copings. The building is designed in a 'Tudor' style and has a symmetrical main range that is two storeys high with attics and consists of three bays. It includes two and three-light stone mullioned windows and a plank door. To the north, there is an integral gatehouse wing that serves as an entrance to the farmyard. This wing is one and a half storeys tall and has a central four-centred archway, set on a greensand plinth. Some openings have been altered.
Local climate
Fernbrooke Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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