Penn Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Farmhouse, farm buildings.

Penn Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings

WRENN ID
leaning-ashlar-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1984
Type
Farmhouse, farm buildings
Address
Penn Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings, Axminster Road, Wootton Fitzpaine
OS grid reference
SY 342 955
Coordinates
50.75562, -2.93362
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Penn Farmhouse and the attached farm buildings date from the early 18th century. The farmhouse features rubble walls and a tile roof with gable ends, along with renewed brick stacks at the gables. It is two storeys high and has three windows, which are casements with wooden glazing bars, lintels, and cills. The front door is slightly left of centre and is a plank door with a wooden lintel above it. Inside, there is an open fireplace on the right side, complete with a chamfered wooden lintel and run-out stops. A staircase runs transversely at the centre, leading up to a back corridor. The attached farm buildings include stables and a barn, which also have rubble walls and patent tile roofs, featuring brick quoins around the openings and blue lias quoins.

Local climate

Penn Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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