Blue Vein Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Farmhouse.
Blue Vein Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- half-rubblework-dock
- 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
- Blue Vein Farmhouse, Kingsdown Road, Box
- OS grid reference
- ST 831 673
- Coordinates
- 51.40508, -2.24327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Vein Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse constructed from rubble stone, featuring a Bridgwater tile roof and coped gables. The building has one and a half storeys. It includes recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds. At the left end, there is a section with a lower pitched roof, coped gables, end wall stacks, and one ground floor three-light window. To the right, there is a straight joint and a window range that includes a coped dormer gable and three-light windows on each floor. A 20th-century porch is located to the right of the ground floor, which has a reset two-light window. There is coping and a ridge stack to the right, followed by a two-window range that slightly projects. Above the three-light windows on each floor, there is a coped dormer gable, along with a smaller dormer gable featuring a two-light window above a single light. A straight joint is present to the right, with a ridge stack above and an end section that is built out to the front, which includes a 20th-century three-light window, a coped east gable, and paired small openings in the gable apex. The rear of the farmhouse has a dormer gable with a two-light window, a similar window below in the centre section, and another dormer gable with a two-light window in the left section.
Local climate
Blue Vein 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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