California Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
California Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- graven-lancet-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- California Farmhouse, Priests Way, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 019 777
- Coordinates
- 50.59933, -1.97326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
California Farmhouse is a building likely dating from the 18th century. It features Purbeck stone walls, which are partly rendered, and a Purbeck stone roof with a brick stack. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an entrance with a stone porch that includes a modern door. The windows on both the ground and first floors have been replaced with modern versions. Notable architectural features include large buttresses on the south wall. The west (rear) wall has a lean-to extension and a porch with a modern tiled roof. A new house has been added to the north, which is attached to the original farmhouse. Although the house has undergone some alterations, it remains significant as one of the surviving outlying farms of Swanage. The range of farm buildings surrounding the yard at the back of the house, which have stone walls and corrugated iron roofs, are not listed.
Local climate
California Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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