Spencer's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Spencer's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fossil-tallow-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1960
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Spencer's Farmhouse, Box, SN13 8AJ
OS grid reference
ST 814 684
Coordinates
51.41481, -2.26758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Spencer's Farmhouse is a house from the 17th century, possibly with medieval origins. It is built of rubble stone and has a thatched roof, featuring a ridge stack and a west end stack. The house has one and a half storeys and three coped dormer gables, each with 2-light mullion windows that have recessed frames and timber mullions.

On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a pair of casement windows, a 2-light flush cyma-moulded window with small-paned lights, a small pointed light that may be medieval, and a door set in a chamfered flush surround with a hood on brackets. This is followed by another 2-light flush cyma-moulded window with small-paned lights and a 19th-century 4-pane casement window. The rear of the house has two dormer gables with 2-light windows, a central casement dormer, and a ground floor 2-light recessed hollow moulded mullion window with a hoodmould, along with a small rectangular opening that may be medieval and a door.

There is an east end extension that is tiled with Bridgwater tiles. Inside, the farmhouse features a Tudor arched stone fireplace that backs onto a cross passage, as well as chamfered and stopped beams.

Local climate

Spencer's Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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