Watercombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse.

Watercombe Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fading-groin-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Watercombe Farmhouse, Owermoigne
OS grid reference
SY 755 847
Coordinates
50.66231, -2.34671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Watercombe Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse with a main range dating from the 18th century and a 19th-century section at right angles. The building features rubblestone walls that are rendered, and it has a thatched roof that is hipped at the west end and gabled at the southeast. There are rendered stacks on the ridge at the left side and at the southeast gable end. The farmhouse is 1½ storeys tall and has four windows with very irregular fenestration, including 19th-century sashes and 20th-century horizontally pivoting casements, as well as two and three-light eyebrow dormers. The north and south elevations each have half-hipped square projecting bays that contain doorways with 20th-century doors in their side walls. The 19th-century sashes have been partially replaced with 20th-century plastic windows. At the center, there is a rendered porch with a 20th-century door. Inside, the farmhouse features mid-chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

Watercombe Farmhouse 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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