Lower Sturthill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A Early Modern Farmhouse.

Lower Sturthill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
muffled-threshold-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Early Modern
Address
Lower Sturthill Farmhouse, Chilcombe Lane, Shipton Gorge
OS grid reference
SY 521 917
Coordinates
50.72301, -2.67887
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Sturthill Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with significant alterations made in the 19th century. It features rubble-stone walls with large dressed quoins and some brickwork at the eaves. The roofs are covered with clay tiles and Roman tiles, and there is a brick stack on the inner left-hand gable. The building has an L-plan layout and consists of two storeys with attics.

The south elevation has four windows, which include three- and four-light stone mullions with hollow chamfers, likely re-inserted. There are also three wooden casements with wooden lintels above, and stone jambs and lintels remain in the blockings. The north elevation showcases early 18th-century brickwork that raises the eaves, with four-light stone mullions featuring labels above and wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars.

Inside, the farmhouse has straight-chamfered beams with filleted stops and an open fireplace in the north gable end, which has stone jambs and a straight-chamfered wooden lintel. A brick bread oven has been removed. A 20th-century stone porch located in the north-west angle of the house is not included in the listing.

Local climate

Lower Sturthill Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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