Lower Holt Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. A C18 Farmhouse.

Lower Holt Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tired-solder-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 November 1966
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Holt Farmhouse, Holt Lane, Melbury Osmond
OS grid reference
ST 569 087
Coordinates
50.87691, -2.61321
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Holt Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 18th century, with a 19th-century extension that connects to an earlier structure at the east end. The building features rubble-stone walls, a thatched roof on the original farmhouse, a slate roof on the 19th-century range, and corrugated asbestos further east. There are 20th-century brick stacks on the south and east gables. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a gable end and three windows on the south elevation. The 18th-century section includes a sash window and a 2-light casement above. The 19th-century range has cast-iron casements with glazing bars, wood cills, and dressed stone voussoirs, with three-light windows on the ground floor and two-light windows above. A flush-panelled doorway with a wood frame, dating from the 19th century, is located to the left of centre. The north elevation features similar cast-iron casements, including a canted bay window on the right gable end from the late 19th century, and a plank door, left of centre, from the 20th century.

Local climate

Lower Holt Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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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