Rockhill Farmhouse and Attached Front Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. A Early Modern Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Rockhill Farmhouse and Attached Front Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- standing-cornice-sienna
- 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
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Rockhill Farmhouse and Attached Front Wall and Railings, Wells Way, Keynsham, BS31 1HT
- OS grid reference
- ST 657 679
- Coordinates
- 51.40932, -2.49347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, now a house, likely dating to the mid-17th century, with additions from the mid-19th century and later alterations in the late 20th century. The exterior is whitewashed rubble with wooden lintels, ashlar copings, and a gabled pantile roof, featuring brick stacks at the gable ends. The attached low wall has ashlar copings and cast-iron railings.
The farmhouse has an L-shaped plan; the original sections run parallel to the road and at a right angle to it, with a mid-19th century bakehouse added to the rear. The original layout included a through-passage and a two-room plan.
The roadside front is two storeys high and has a two-window range. The front features late 20th-century casements irregularly spaced to the left angle and to the right of a central, late 20th-century glazed door. The projecting wing features two gable ends and further casements, including two on the ground floor and one on the first floor of the inner face. A large external stack is visible on the north return wall. The original entrance doorway is now a casement window.
Inside, the parallel range has flagstone floors and run-out stopped chamfered spine beams. The ground-floor room on the right has an inglenook fireplace with a wood bressumer.
A low, coped wall with spear-head railings defines a front courtyard.
Local climate
Rockhill Farmhouse and Attached Front Wall and Railings 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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