Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. Farmhouse.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-mantel-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Rectory Hill, West Dean
- OS grid reference
- SU 255 273
- Coordinates
- 51.04497, -1.6369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse built between 1650 and 1700. It features English bond brickwork, which has been painted on the east front, and has a tiled roof. The building is two storeys high with attics and consists of five bays. It has been extended to the south by a bay that originally served as a carriageway but is now used as a sitting room.
There are entrances located in an open timber-framed porch at the south end leading to a stair hall, and a second entrance at the north end. Both fronts of the farmhouse have brick buttresses that define the bays and a plat band. The three northern bays have paned casement windows, while the southern bays have been replaced with 12 and 9-paned sash windows. There are three flat-roofed dormers, and stacks are located on the left gable and at bay 4.
Bays 4 and 5 were extended to the rear around 1930, featuring a two-storey window bay with gauged brick lintels above the openings. The original carriageway has been blocked and converted for domestic use, and the interior was refitted around 1840. The windows have panelled shutters in the reveals.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% 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 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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