Sands Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Farmhouse.
Sands Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- first-flint-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sands Farmhouse, Low Lane, Compton Bassett
- OS grid reference
- SU 012 710
- Coordinates
- 51.43832, -1.98274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sands Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed from squared rubble stone, topped with an open slate roof and featuring end stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a double fronted design. It includes two gabled dormers with leaded lights and two three-light stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds on each floor. At the center, there is a projecting gabled stone porch with a segmental arched opening. The farmhouse has flush quoins and a long rear wing that contains two-light mullion windows.
Local climate
Sands 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 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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