Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. House.
Castle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lost-screen-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle Farmhouse, Sturminster Newton
- OS grid reference
- ST 784 134
- Coordinates
- 50.9201, -2.3077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1700. It is constructed of coursed squared rubble and features a thatched roof with gable ends and brick stacks at the ends. The house has ashlar dressings and a 20th-century tiled and rendered extension at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has a two-window range. The windows are made of ashlar stone with mullions, featuring two and three lights and straight chamfers. Inside, there is a deep chamfered beam.
Local climate
Castle Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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