Model Farm and Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Model Farm and Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-steeple-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Model Farm and Farmhouse, Norton Malreward
- OS grid reference
- ST 591 651
- Coordinates
- 51.38419, -2.58818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Model Farm and Farmhouse, built in the late 1850s for the Smyth Estate of Long Ashton, is a Grade II listed structure. It features rubble construction with freestone dressings and slate roofs. The complex includes a farmhouse and rear service wings at the south end. The stock yard is surrounded by cart-sheds, a coach-house, stables with workshops to the east, a barn to the west, and segmental shelter sheds to the north, all designed in a plain Gothic style.
The farmhouse is two storeys high with two asymmetrical gabled bays; the west bay is set back and has a 20th-century porch at the front. It has two- and three-light casement windows with chamfered lintels and heads, all under relieving arches. Between the gables, there is a two-stage tower topped with a broached pyramidal roof and overhanging eaves, featuring single light windows.
The east range consists of a single storey with attics in the gables, featuring plank loft doors in pointed surrounds. It has six bays with three doorways and a casement window, all in pointed surrounds, along with cart entry doors on the left. There is a lower single storey workshop attached at the far left, and the south gable end has three arch-headed windows.
The west range includes a barn with five cross-loop windows and a central square-headed entry. To the right is a granary with cart sheds below and upper loft doors concealed behind a later lean-to; the south gable end has casement windows under pointed heads.
The north range contains shelter sheds with nine bays. The outer bays have segmental-headed pedestrian doorways, while there are wide segmental-headed entries to bays two and three, as well as seven and eight. Bays four to six feature 20th-century fenestration and doors.
Local climate
Model Farm and 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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