Old Ford House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1985. Detached house.
Old Ford House
- WRENN ID
- wild-column-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1985
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Old Ford House, Bournemouth Road, Blandford St Mary, Blandford St. Mary, DT11 9LN
- OS grid reference
- ST 884 059
- Coordinates
- 50.85269, -2.16514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Ford House is a detached house that dates from the early 18th century at the east end and the early 19th century at the west end. The building features rendered, colour-washed walls with a tiled roof on the earlier section and a hipped slate roof on the later section. There are brick stacks located at various points along the ridge. The house has two storeys and attics with an irregular arrangement of windows. The earlier part of the house has wrought-iron casements with leaded lights, while the later part features 16-pane sash windows. There are flush-panelled doors positioned throughout the building.
Local climate
Old Ford House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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