Forest Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Forest Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-hearth-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Forest Farmhouse, Woodrow Road, Melksham Without, SN12 7AX
- OS grid reference
- ST 916 656
- Coordinates
- 51.38948, -2.12071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse located on the north side of Woodrow Road, Melksham Without. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone and has an oak shingle mansard roof with coped verges and a saddlestone. It features ashlar axial stacks. Originally, it was a two-story, two-window farmhouse. A 20th-century verandah obscures the original entrance doors. A 19th-century rubblestone lean-to extension adjoins the left side of the building. The first-floor windows are two-light, cyma-mullioned casements. The left return displays one two-light, cyma-mullioned casement on both the ground and first floors, along with a single blocked attic window. The right return incorporates an abutting 18th-century rubblestone dairy and one two-light, cyma-mullioned casement on the first floor. The rear elevation has a door with a chamfered case and flat stone hood supported by brackets, situated to the right of the centre, flanked by two-light, cyma-mullioned casement windows. Four two-light, cyma-mullioned casements are present on the first floor of the rear. The interior was inaccessible when the building was surveyed.
Local climate
Forest Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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