Chescombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Chescombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-casement-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Chescombe Farmhouse, Chescombe Lane, Winterborne Whitechurch, DT11 0AR
- OS grid reference
- ST 829 001
- Coordinates
- 50.8009, -2.244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chescombe Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse situated on the north side of Chescombe Lane in Winterborne Whitechurch. It is a symmetrical building of three bays, with a rendered and colourwashed exterior, a slate roof, and rendered stacks at each end. The ground floor of the outer bays features tripartite sash windows with glazing bars. The upper floor has a single sash window in the centre. A glazed porch with a plank door and transom light sits in the middle of the façade.
Local climate
Chescombe Farmhouse 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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