Lower Bagber Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. House. 2 related planning applications.

Lower Bagber Farmhouse

WRENN ID
low-marble-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
House
Address
Lower Bagber Farmhouse, Pentridge Lane, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2EX
OS grid reference
ST 766 156
Coordinates
50.94018, -2.33333
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lower Bagber Farmhouse is a house dating from 1589, with significant alterations in the 1863. It is constructed of coursed rubble, squared dressed rubble, and ashlar, with a slate roof featuring gable ends. Stone stacks are present at the gables and projecting from the front right wall. The house is arranged in a U-shaped plan. The western arm is built of rubble and likely represents the oldest part of the building. A projecting two-story front porch was probably added in the 19th century.

The south facade is two stories and has an attic. It features 2-light and 4-light square-headed stone mullioned windows with hollow chamfers. The ground floor windows on the left have a continuous square returned label that abuts the porch. A projecting stack is located to the right of the porch. Three 19th-century gabled dormers are present in the roof, each containing wooden 2-light, 4-pane casements. The east front has some stone mullioned windows with ovolo-moulded details.

Inside, the west wing retains deep chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, while the east wing features boxed beams. A central newel staircase is positioned to the north. The roof retains heavy trusses with cambered collar beams, now concealed beneath a 19th-century roof structure in both wings. One room in the east wing incorporates 19th-century panelling. The porch includes a reset datestone.

Local climate

Lower Bagber Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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