Combe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Combe Farmhouse

WRENN ID
worn-bronze-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Combe Farmhouse, the Combe, Compton Martin, BS40 6JD
OS grid reference
ST 542 570
Coordinates
51.31067, -2.65771
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Combe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of rubble and pebble-dash, topped with a double Roman tiled roof featuring crestings and brick gable stacks, as well as some pantiles. It has a cross passage and a T-plan layout formed by a rear staircase tower.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three windows on the front. The ground floor features a four-light casement window on both the right and left sides, with timber lintels and ovolo mullions, along with 19th-century lights. The second window from the right is a similar two-light casement. The second window from the left has a steep gabled 19th-century porch with bargeboards and a finial, which contains a heavy plank and batten door with studs and strap hinges, a moulded frame, and pointed arched sidelights. The first floor has three-light casements with timber lintels, some retaining ovolo mullions, while the rest have 19th-century lights.

On the left side of the building, there is a two-light casement window at ground floor level, similar to those on the front, and a single-storey lean-to. The right side features a 19th-century one-and-a-half storey wing with a three-light casement on the ground floor and a small two-light casement on the first floor, along with a small single attic light. The rear of the farmhouse has a single-storey pantiled lean-to with a 20th-century door that encloses the rear passage door and an earlier rubble lean-to to the right. The two-storey stair tower contains a three-light casement with ovolo mullions and a timber lintel on both the first and second floors, with a smaller casement on the second floor.

Inside, the door to the front right room features a carved panel over the lintel with scroll-work, and there are moulded beams in that same room. The stair in the tower divides to the right and left at the half-landing. The rest of the interior is not accessible.

Local climate

Combe Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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