Friar Waddon is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Friar Waddon
- WRENN ID
- inner-ashlar-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Friar Waddon, 3 and 4, Portesham, DT3 4EP
- OS grid reference
- SY 641 857
- Coordinates
- 50.67067, -2.50827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a detached farmhouse, now divided into two cottages, situated near Friar Waddon Farm. The building dates back to the 17th century, with 20th-century window replacements and a window from the 16th century that has been reused. The walls are of rubble stone with dressed stone quoins. The roof is thatched, featuring a block ridge and stone gable copings. Brick stacks are positioned at each end gable. The house has one-and-a-half storeys and three windows. The left window is a 2-light wooden casement with glazing bars and a wooden lintel. The central window is a 3-light stone mullion with four-centred heads, which has been reset into the wall. The right window is a 3-light wooden casement with glazing bars and a wooden lintel. Three half-dormers are located above the roofline, each containing a 3-light wooden casement with glazing bars. Modern pentice-roofed outshuts with slate roofs have been added to both ends of the building. Entrances are at the rear. Number 3 has a plank stable door inside a wooden porch, with a thatched outshut above. Number 4 has a 20th-century wooden panel door with glass panels.
Local climate
Friar Waddon receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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