Loppinger Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. A C18 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Loppinger Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-gateway-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Loppinger Farmhouse, Common Hill, Steeple Ashton, BA14 6EE
- OS grid reference
- ST 902 578
- Coordinates
- 51.31928, -2.14146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Loppinger Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1797, as indicated by a datestone on the stack inscribed with "J D/1797". The building is constructed of English garden wall bond brick with stone dressings and features a stone slate hipped roof with an axial brick stack. It has a baffle entry and is designed in an L-plan.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has two windows on the front. The entrance consists of a four-panelled door with a gabled canopy above. To the right of the door is a 3-light casement window, and to the left are a 3-light and a 2-light casement window. There is a plat band at the first floor level, which has two 3-light casements with lozenge diaper patterns in vitrified headers above the doorway.
On the left side of the building, there is a 2-light casement window to the right and a blocked doorway with flanking 2-light segmental-headed casements leading to the wing, which has three 2-light casements on the first floor. The rear of the main range includes an added outshut and a two-storey extension from the 1940s at the back of the wing.
Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered beams, a blocked open fireplace, and four-panelled doors. The farm was acquired by the Dunsdon family in 1698 and was rebuilt by John Dunsdon in 1797.
Local climate
Loppinger 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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