Penleigh Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Penleigh Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-finial-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Penleigh Farmhouse, Fairwood Road, Dilton Marsh, BA13 4EB
- OS grid reference
- ST 856 508
- Coordinates
- 51.25702, -2.20715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penleigh Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with 18th-century additions and an early 19th-century wing. It is constructed of English garden wall bond brick and features a Bridgewater tiled roof with brick stacks. The building is arranged in an L-plan and is two stories high, with a former entrance front on the south side that has one window.
The 17th-century range includes a three-light cyma-mullioned casement window on the ground floor and a three-light T mullioned and transomed window on the first floor, along with a datestone inscribed with "G H / 1716" and toothed eaves. The attached 18th-century wing to the right has a four-panelled door and three and two-light casements. The 19th-century wing, which has a higher roofline, features French windows and both four-pane and 16-pane sash windows.
At the rear of the 17th-century range, there are three-light casements from the 20th and 19th centuries, along with a three-light mullioned and transomed casement on the first floor and a three-light casement in the attic. The right return has a two-light mullioned casement on the ground floor, a three-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor, and a three-light attic casement, along with attached outbuildings.
Inside the 17th-century range, there is a blocked open fireplace and fine moulded cross beams in the west room on the ground floor, along with 19th-century joinery. The initials on the datestone belong to George Turner, who purchased the Penleigh estate in 1704.
Local climate
Penleigh Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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