Yes, and with about as little interference as English planning allows. Four listed buildings in the entire area, every one of them at the lowest grade. No conservation area. No scheduled monument. Whatever stops you altering a house here, it will be the builder's quote rather than a heritage officer with a folder and a grievance.
Historic England's register carries 4 listed buildings across this area, all of them Grade II, with none at Grade I and none at Grade II star. Listing attaches to the building itself, inside as well as out, so whoever owns one of those four needs listed building consent for work that would be a weekend job three doors down. For every other home here, the register is a piece of local trivia rather than a live constraint. Four is a small enough number that the question of whether it applies to you is answered in about thirty seconds.
The local planning register recorded 823 applications across this area between April 2024 and July 2026, with 361 of those falling in the most recent twelve months. That is the useful evidence, better than any policy summary: people around here are visibly extending, converting and building out, in volume, right now. Nobody submits 361 applications in a year in a place where the answer is understood to be no. What the register does not carry consistently is outcomes, so volume is proof of activity and nothing more, and treating it as an approval rate would be reading the wrong column.
Practically, a good deal of household work falls under permitted development, the standing national rights that let you extend or convert within set limits without a full application, and anything past those limits goes to the local authority in the ordinary way. Two questions are worth putting to a specific address rather than the village as a whole. Whether the house is one of the four that are listed, and whether it sits inside the roughly 2% of the area that falls within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs area of outstanding natural beauty. Both are answerable before an offer, and both are considerably cheaper to establish then than after an architect has drawn something.
Of all the things this village will ask you to think hard about, the freedom to change your own house is the one that barely registers as a question. Get the structure surveyed and the budget honest, because the planning system is not going to be the thing that stops you.