Moorside Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. A C17 Farmhouse.
Moorside Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-pedestal-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Moorside Farmhouse, Station Road, Backwell
- OS grid reference
- ST 481 693
- Coordinates
- 51.42119, -2.7466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorside Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the mid to late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features painted rubble walls and a double Roman tiled roof, forming an L-plan, vernacular farmhouse design. The building has two storeys.
On the west (front) elevation, there are three windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor, all of which are 3-light casements. The first-floor window on the left has ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds. The north (garden) elevation includes one glazing bar sash window on the ground floor, a 6-panel door to the right beneath a gabled porch, a panelled and glazed door to the left, and another 19th-century door at the far left. There is also a 3-light casement window on the first floor.
Inside, the farmhouse features thick chamfered beams with scroll stops and one internal 3-light casement window with ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds.
Local climate
Moorside 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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