Old Limes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1988. Farmhouse.
Old Limes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-hearth-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Limes Farmhouse, High Street, Collingbourne Ducis
- OS grid reference
- SU 243 538
- Coordinates
- 51.28302, -1.65159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Limes Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 16th century and around 1700. It is rendered and has a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with an additional two bays returning on the right side. The entrance is located laterally to the central bay and features a 20th-century porch. The windows are timber casements, with panes on the first floor. There is a major stack in the right bay and a second stack on the rear wall of the left bay. A later rear wing includes a lateral stack, and the roof is hipped.
Inside, the centre room on the upper floor has a tie-beam at a low level, which may indicate a survival of cruck construction, and there are remnants of stencilled decoration featuring flowers and leaves from around 1700, although this is now partly obscured. On the ground floor, there is a chamfered spine beam with scoop stops. The roof also contains remains of a wattle and daub chimney or narrow smoke bay at the right end of the building.
Local climate
Old Limes Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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