Wychwell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Wychwell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-belfry-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wychwell Farmhouse, Wapley Hill, Dodington, BS37 8RJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 708 799
- Coordinates
- 51.51741, -2.4209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wychwell Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of sandstone and limestone rubble, with limestone dressings, and the left side is rendered. The roof is double Roman tiled, with brick gable stacks, with a pantiled and double Roman tiled addition to the left, and a corrugated iron roofed single storey addition to the right. The original design incorporated a through passage.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three windows. The ground floor has two 3-light casements with ovolo mullions, surrounds, cornices, and 3-pane lights held in place by loop catches. A central plank door has a glass insertion set within a moulded stone surround, surmounted by a flat stone hood supported on wrought iron brackets. The first floor has two outer windows similar to those on the ground floor, and a central 2-light window. All openings have relieving arches. A single-storey addition to the right features a door and a 4-pane window. A lower two-storey former kitchen to the left has a single-storey lean-to and two plank doors, along with one 2-light casement. The left return has a single-storey lean-to with a stable door in a chamfered wooden frame. The right return includes a 19th-century 2-light casement with a timber lintel at attic level.
At the rear, there is a single-storey rendered addition with a 19th-century 4-pane casement and two 20th-century windows. The ground floor has a 3-light window similar to that on the front, a former passage door, and a central 2-light window at the first floor, resembling the front. There is also a door in the addition to the left.
Inside, the house features chamfered beams and a straight staircase to the left of the passage, forked at the first floor level. The front right room has cupboards with shaped shelves to each side of the fireplace. The former kitchen has a heavy fireplace lintel with an oven to the rear.
Local climate
Wychwell Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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