Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Farmhouse.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
veiled-parapet-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse, Sedgehill and Semley
OS grid reference
ST 892 269
Coordinates
51.04208, -2.15483
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with a 17th-century wing, and was altered in the late 19th century. It is constructed of rubble stone and dressed limestone, topped with a tiled roof and featuring brick stacks. The building has a through passage leading to the rear of the stack and is single-storey with an attic, displaying a two-window earlier range.

The central gabled porch contains a four-panelled door set in an elliptically-headed doorway. To the left of the porch is a single chamfered fire window, and on either side of the porch are four-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements. There are two full gabled dormers, each with three-light mullioned casements. The left return of the building has a blocked pointed doorway and remnants of a string course above it.

The 17th-century cross range to the right features three-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements on both the ground and first floors, along with a string course on the left return. The gable end of this wing has a 19th-century three-storey square bay with four-light mullioned casements. The right return of the wing includes a central three-panelled door flanked by three-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds, as well as single-light casements on either side of the first floor, and a gabled dormer on the roof.

At the rear, there is a six-panelled door and a three-light mullioned casement, along with a two-light attic casement in the main range. The wing features two-light mullioned casements. The interior is largely inaccessible, but the through passage showcases fine strap-work panelling on the left side, deeply chamfered beams, and open fireplaces with chamfered lintels on stone jambs. The farmhouse is possibly a Medieval house that was remodelled and extended in the 17th century.

Local climate

Church Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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