Church Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1981. A Medieval Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-courtyard-reed
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Church Road, Bitton, BS30 6LJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 681 694
- Coordinates
- 51.42281, -2.45917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is reputedly the oldest house in the village, with medieval origins. It was remodelled externally and internally in the 17th century and again in the mid-19th century. The building consists of two parts and is two storeys high, constructed from rubble with slate roofs. The left section is older and features two large buttresses, forming an 'L' plan with irregular windows. On the first floor, there is one three-light chamfered mullion window, with the left-hand buttress cut away to accommodate it. The ground floor has two later windows, one a sash and the other a casement, along with a door to the left that incorporates an oak surround. The right section is set back and has two windows, one with two lights and the other with three lights, both having cambered heads. There is a lean-to porch at the angle of the two sections. The gabled rear wing of the left portion includes a door and a squint slit.
Inside, the main feature is a two-light window from the late 12th or early 13th century, now located on the east wall of the main part of the left section. The mullion of this window is patterned and may have once featured projecting chevrons that have since been rounded off. The principal ground floor room in the left portion has very heavy beams and a wide fireplace with a chamfered wood surround dating from the 18th century. The stairs are positioned at an angle with the rear wing. There is a stud partition between the rear wing and the back of the main portion, with chamfered studs and rails. One original 17th-century oak door surround features reeded moulding that dies into an ogee stop at the base, and the door has decorative strap hinges. This house was the former manor house of the village.
Local climate
Church 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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