Sockety Kennels is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. A C18 Farmhouse.
Sockety Kennels
- WRENN ID
- long-rood-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sockety Kennels, South Perrott
- OS grid reference
- ST 480 067
- Coordinates
- 50.85791, -2.73963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sockety Kennels, formerly known as Sockety Farm, is a former farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 18th century and is marked with the date RRE 1826. The building features coursed dressed stone walls and an asbestos slate roof with gable ends. The right-hand gable has a stone gable coping, while there is a brick stack at the ridge center and a stone stack with a projecting cornice at the right-hand gable. The structure is two storeys high and has four windows, which are two and three-light wooden casements with stone voussoirs and wooden cills. The front door is located well to the right of center and features bead moulding at the arris of the dressed stone jambs, with a square head. The door, dating from the 19th century, has six flush panels. Inside, there is a mid-chamfered ceiling beam with tongued stops and an inglenook fireplace that includes a sawn beam and a bread oven.
Local climate
Sockety Kennels 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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