Widdenham Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Farmhouse.
Widdenham Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tenth-plaster-saffron
- 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
- Widdenham Farmhouse, Colerne
- OS grid reference
- ST 837 709
- Coordinates
- 51.4376, -2.2354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Widdenham Farmhouse is a late 17th-century mill house that has been converted into a farmhouse. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a Bridgwater tile roof with coped gables and truncated end wall stacks. The building is two and a half storeys tall and has an L-shaped plan. There are two dormer gables with casement windows and a five-window range on the main floors. The original glazing bar sash windows have been replaced with aluminium windows in early 18th-century stone surrounds that have moulded sills. The moulded cornices above these windows have been chiselled off and were covered with 19th-century cement render, which has now been removed.
The farmhouse boasts a fine moulded doorcase with a rose carved in the lintel and a stone hood supported by brackets. There is a 20th-century porch added to the entrance. At the rear, there are two dormer gables with oval lights and two first-floor two-light ovolo-moulded windows with hoodmoulds. A lean-to structure is present on the ground floor. The rear wing features an end wall stack and a dormer gable on the inner face, which includes a two-light ovolo-moulded window with a hoodmould. This farmhouse is likely the "very convenient sash'd house" that was advertised for sale along with the woollen mill in 1752, with the woollen mill being recorded from the 17th century.
Local climate
Widdenham Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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