Bencroft Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1976. Farmhouse.
Bencroft Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fading-foundation-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bencroft Farmhouse, Bremhill
- OS grid reference
- ST 966 730
- Coordinates
- 51.45601, -2.04951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bencroft Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to later 18th century. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a stone slate roof with coped gables and ashlar corniced stacks on the west end wall and ridge. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window range that may have originally been three windows before being extended to the east.
The farmhouse includes four gabled dormers with pairs of casement windows. The windows are cyma-moulded flush mullion types, with the left side arranged symmetrically with three-light windows on each side and a two-light window above the door, which has a moulded surround and single lights flanking it. There is a string course that originally stepped up over the door to just beneath the window above, although this part has been damaged. The right bay has a similar arrangement of three-light windows on each floor and a string course.
Additionally, there is a single-storey addition at the east end and a rear wing that also features similar mullion windows. The farmhouse is marked on the 1773 Andrews and Drury map.
Local climate
Bencroft Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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