Marsh Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Marsh Farm House
- WRENN ID
- cold-kitchen-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Marsh Farm House, Back Drove, Leigh
- OS grid reference
- ST 615 083
- Coordinates
- 50.87313, -2.54841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marsh Farm House is a farmhouse dated 1835, as indicated by a stone on the end gable wall. The building features rubble stone walls and a slate roof with coped gables and a brick end stack. It is two storeys high with an attic. The entrance has a flush panelled door set under a segmental arch. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with glazing bars, also under segmental arches, which have projecting keystones. The first floor has three similar windows. At the rear, there is a lower wing constructed in matching materials, which is a separate build, along with an additional rear lean-to.
Local climate
Marsh Farm House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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