Crooked Withies Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. House.

Crooked Withies Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tired-lime-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1986
Type
House
Address
Crooked Withies Farmhouse, Holt
OS grid reference
SU 055 052
Coordinates
50.84699, -1.92295
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Crooked Withies Farmhouse is a detached house dating from the mid-17th century, with an extension added around 1960. The original structure features timber-framed walls, which are partly plastered and partly rebuilt in brick, with exposed timber framing visible in the upper parts of both gable walls. It has a sandstone plinth and a half-hipped thatched roof with a central brick chimney stack. The original layout was a lobby entrance plan, and the house has one storey and an attic. The 1960 wing, which has plastered walls and a thatched roof, creates an L-shaped plan and now serves as the entrance.

Inside the original house, the ground floor includes two casement windows with glazing bars set under wooden lintels, while the attic features a dormer with metal casements. There is also a later lean-to structure made of brick with a slate roof along the outer wall. The interior retains original timber-framed partitions on both floors, a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and a bread oven in the hall, and some exposed ceiling beams. The original roof structure, which is of tie and collar beam form, is still intact.

Local climate

Crooked Withies Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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