Court House Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Court House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tangled-jade-sorrel
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 June 1952
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Court House Farmhouse, Church Road South, Portishead, BS20 6PU
OS grid reference
ST 466 759
Coordinates
51.48018, -2.76945
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Court House Farmhouse is a late medieval building that was remodeled in the 17th century and again in the 19th century. It is two storeys high and constructed of rubble, featuring a belvedere turret on the southwest corner. The east wing dates from the 15th century and later. The roof is covered with double Roman tiles and the building has an L-shaped plan, with the east section originally being longer.

The south section includes a large stack and an adjoining bread oven, along with a stone mullion window. The east section has mullioned and transomed trefoil-headed windows on both the front and back at the first floor. There is a stair turret with a catslide roof. Inside, the first floor features a fireplace with a depressed four-centred arch, dated 1664, with the initials G C (Katherine Gertrude Chappell) K in the spandrels. There are also blocked doors at either end. On the ground floor, a large stack has been converted into a window.

The west wing, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, also has a double Roman tiled roof and is two storeys tall. It features three stone mullion windows, two and three-lights, with depressed four-centred arched heads and drip moulds that have lozenge-shaped return stops above. There are two stacks between the windows and a two-storey gabled porch on the right, which has an arched door and a two-light window above. The interior includes nine moulded ceiling beams throughout the block and original fireplaces. To the left of the west wing is a three-stage hexagonal belvedere tower, which is almost detached. This tower is made of rubble with brick quoins and has a freestone moulded cornice.

Local climate

Court House Farmhouse receives an average of 860 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 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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