The Poplars is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
The Poplars
- WRENN ID
- rough-floor-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Poplars, Spring Street, Wool
- OS grid reference
- SY 847 867
- Coordinates
- 50.67981, -2.21753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Poplars, formerly known as Seymour's Farm, is a likely early 19th-century farmhouse that may include earlier elements. A date stone on the rear wall indicates it was built in 1823. The building features stone walls with brick dressings and a brick dentil cornice at the eaves, topped by a tiled roof and brick stacks with ornamental caps. It stands two storeys tall, with a single-storey lean-to at the rear that has stone walls and a slate catslide roof. The front entrance includes a part-glazed door set in a timber trellised porch with an ogee-shaped bargeboard. On the ground floor, there are two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has three similar windows.
Local climate
The Poplars receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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