Priory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1961. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Priory Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- far-beam-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Priory Farmhouse, Post Office Lane, Flax Bourton, BS48 3QE
- OS grid reference
- ST 505 695
- Coordinates
- 51.42281, -2.71211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse located on the east side of Post Office Lane in Flax Bourton. The building is rendered and features a hipped double Roman tiled roof that is set behind a parapet with a moulded cornice. It has five clustered diagonal stacks made of squared rubble. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and includes two 16-pane glazing bar sash windows. The central entrance consists of a panelled and studded door, which is framed by an ogee moulded surround and fitted with strap hinges that have open scroll ends. This door is sheltered by a large semi-circular canopy supported by brackets. Inside, the farmhouse boasts chamfered beams with scroll stops and a winder staircase.
Local climate
Priory 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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