Home Farmhouse

YATTON C.P. WEMBERHAM CRESCENT (north east side) ST 46 NW 5/191 Home Farmhouse - II Farmhouse, now house. Early - mid C17, extended to left later C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Rubble, rendered, double Roman tiled roof with gable stack to right, end bay to left and lean-to and outhouse pantiled. Originally 2-room and through passage plan. 2 storeys and 4 windows, ground floor has three 3-light C20 casements, C20 gabled porch 2nd from right, first floor has 3-light casements under eaves, 2 to right retaining early wooden rounded frames, single storey lean-to to right. Right return has small single light in lean-to. Rear has 2-storey former outhouse attached to right with 2-light casement at first floor rear and C20 single storey addition in angle to main house with 2 doors and plate- glass windows; lean-to to left has door with segmental head; rear of main house has three 2-light casements under eaves, 2 small 2-light casements at ground floor, to left retaining early frame and mullion, rear passage door in C20 gabled porch with outer glazed door and small single stair light at upper level to right of porch, oven projection with pitched roof to left by gable stack. Interior: chamfered and stopped beam along passage, end room to right has wide chamfered wooden lintel to fireplace, oven recess to left, fireplace largely rebuilt; room to left divided for later straight stair; 4-bay roof over original 2 rooms, only principal rafters visible. There was formerly a manor of Ham and Wemberham in Yatton parish, Home Farmhouse may have been part of this. (Sources: Collinson, J. : History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset Vol III 1791).

Listing NGR: ST4247466241