Magiston Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse.
Magiston Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fading-storey-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Magiston Farmhouse, Sydling St. Nicholas
- OS grid reference
- SY 636 966
- Coordinates
- 50.76845, -2.51651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magiston Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 18th century, with 19th-century alterations including new windows and an added south range. The building features walls made of knapped flint and chalk block, with brick quoins, and has concrete tile and slate roofs. There are brick stacks on the north ridge, the original south gable end, and on the south eaves of the added range. The house is designed in a T-plan, with a 19th-century cross-wing added at the south end. It stands two storeys high.
The west angle of the house, which contains the entrance, has two windows on the south wall and two on the west wall. These windows have iron casements with lead lights and brick dressings. The front door, located in the angle on the west wall, is a fielded-panel door from the 20th century, and there is a 20th-century canopy above it. The 19th-century range is rendered and painted, featuring a slate roof. The south elevation has two storeys with three windows that are 12-pane sashes, along with a 20th-century sash window at the top left. There are also two doors on this elevation, one at the left end and another at the right centre, both of which are multi-paned and from the 20th century.
Local climate
Magiston Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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