South Down Farmhouse and Attached Front Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse.

South Down Farmhouse and Attached Front Walls

WRENN ID
narrow-floor-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Farmhouse
Address
South Down Farmhouse and Attached Front Walls, Owermoigne
OS grid reference
SY 757 821
Coordinates
50.63893, -2.34458
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South Down Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the early 18th century. It features brick walls in English bond on the front elevation, with rubblestone on the remaining walls. The roof is covered with clay tiles and has stone slate eaves. There are brick stacks at the gable ends, each with moulded cornices. The building is two storeys high and has dormers. The front has five windows with symmetrical arrangements, featuring sashes with glazing bars, segmental heads, and flush wood frames. The windows have stone cills and brick arches with burnt headers and keystones. There are three gabled dormers with two-light casements and tile roofs, which were added in the 20th century.

On both gable ends, there are additions made of rubblestone and brick, topped with pentice clay tile roofs. A plank door is located on the right end, while the central front door is a plank door set in a wood frame, dating from the 19th century. The brick porch has a segmental head, a keystone, and a gabled, tiled roof. At the back, there is a short wing made of rubblestone with brick quoins and a brick stack at the gable end, which was added in the 19th century. Inside, there is a central transverse hall with a room on either side, and ribbed panel window shutters from the 19th century. The farmhouse is accompanied by attached rubblestone front walls that extend for 20 metres by 20 metres.

Local climate

South Down Farmhouse and Attached Front Walls receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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