Sheephouse Farmhouse and Garden Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Sheephouse Farmhouse and Garden Entrance
- WRENN ID
- noble-beam-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sheephouse Farmhouse and Garden Entrance, Folly Lane, Iron Acton, BS37 9TU
- OS grid reference
- ST 661 841
- Coordinates
- 51.55504, -2.48989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sheephouse Farmhouse and its adjoining garden entrance were built in the early 19th century. The farmhouse features rubble construction with roughcast at the front and brick, topped with double Roman tile roofs. It is two storeys high and has three windows, with sash windows on the lower floor and 9-pane sashes above. To the left, there is a two-storey lower extension that has casement windows. A central porch with trelliswork and a cambered shape leads to a six-panel door, which is topped by a three-pane transom light. The garden entrance is located to the right, where a brick wall approximately two metres high extends about three metres from the front. This wall has a pointed archway that includes a door.
Local climate
Sheephouse Farmhouse and Garden Entrance receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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