Darknoll Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. House.
Darknoll Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- north-cellar-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Darknoll Farmhouse, Castle Lane, Okeford Fitzpaine
- OS grid reference
- ST 806 109
- Coordinates
- 50.89779, -2.27718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Darknoll Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 18th century, with a 20th-century extension on the right. It is constructed of brick and features a tiled, gable-ended roof with brick stacks at each end. The building has two storeys and a three-window range. The windows are casements with glazing bars, with two-light windows on the upper floor and three-light windows beneath segmental brick arches on the ground floor. There is a part-glazed door also set under a segmental brick arch.
Local climate
Darknoll 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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