Anchor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Farmhouse.
Anchor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-cobalt-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Anchor Farmhouse, Trent
- OS grid reference
- ST 587 193
- Coordinates
- 50.97218, -2.58948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anchor Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 17th century, which underwent significant repairs in the late 19th century. The building features original rubble-stone walls that are rendered, along with coursed dressed stone walls. It has clay-tile roofs with stone gable copings and brick stacks at the gable ends. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three windows on the front, which include three-light stone mullions with labels above and two-light mullions on the first floor. The wood casements are fitted with glazing bars.
The front door is centrally located and has stone jambs, featuring a panelled design with four top lights, dating from the 19th century. The porch is supported by octagonal stone columns and has a flat entablature, also from the 19th century. At the rear, there are two ranges with a small yard in between. The west range includes a two-light casement and a loft door above, while the east range has three-light stone mullions. Both ranges feature three-light stone mullions on their gable ends, and there is a pentice-roofed outshut on the east gable wall. Overall, Anchor Farmhouse is a substantial U-plan farmhouse.
Local climate
Anchor Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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