West Cruxton Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. A C16 Farmhouse.
West Cruxton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-doorway-solstice
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Cruxton Farmhouse, Frome Vauchurch
- OS grid reference
- SY 602 965
- Coordinates
- 50.76714, -2.5649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Cruxton Farmhouse is a manor farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with a 19th-century extension at the south end. The building features flint and dressed stone walls, with a stone base, and has clay-tile roofs adorned with stone gable copings and moulded kneelers. There are 20th-century brick stacks at both gable ends. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and has five windows, all featuring hollow-chamfered stone mullions set in square frames, with depressed-arch heads and fixed lead-lights that have opening metal casements in the center.
On the ground floor, there are various openings including two 2-light windows, a porch, a 3-light window, and a small buttress. The gabled porch at the center reaches full height and has an entrance with a depressed arch in a square head, topped with a returned label. The door is a studded plank-and-muntin type, complete with a weatherboard at the bottom. The rear elevation includes a staircase tower with 3-light and 4-light stone mullions. The 19th-century extension is built of rubble stone with brick dressings and features a brick stack at the gable end, along with a 3-light cast-iron casement window that has glazing bars and a segmental head.
Inside, some doorways retain their original oak frames with 4-centred heads, and there is some 17th-century panelling present.
Local climate
West Cruxton 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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