College Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1955. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
College Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stranded-latch-jay
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- College Farmhouse, High Street, Purton, SN5 4AR
- OS grid reference
- SU 090 876
- Coordinates
- 51.58742, -1.87009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high, with a cellar and attics, and features five window bays. The central entrance lobby leads to a stair at the rear and has flanking reception rooms, with a parlour to the left. There is a central gabled porch that has a moulded round-headed opening with a keystone and a boarded door. The windows are two-light ovolo moulded with labels, and there are five gabled dormers with timber casements. The gable stacks complete the exterior.
Inside, the parlour is fully panelled in 17th-century style and includes a stone fireplace, which may be later, along with an overmantel carved with the arms of the Hyde family and the date 1626. A similar overmantel is found on the first floor, featuring different arms. The interior also contains early doors, window seats, and a principal rafter roof from the 17th century. There is a scratch date on the porch indicating the year 1754.
Local climate
College Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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