Parks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Parks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- north-frieze-fog
- 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
- Parks Farmhouse, Acton Turville Road, Tormarton, GL9 1HR
- OS grid reference
- ST 786 795
- Coordinates
- 51.5142, -2.30859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parks Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse with later alterations. It is constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar and stone dressings, topped with a stone tiled roof featuring raised coped verges and gable stacks. The building is 2½ storeys high and has three windows on the front. The ground floor includes a canted bay window on the left and paired 2-light windows on each side, all with chamfered mullions and a hipped roof. There is a central gabled porch that has a similar 2-light casement window at the front and a door to the right. To the right of the porch is a larger 4-light casement window with a relieving arch above it.
On the first floor, there are two large gables and a central narrower gable that is set forward, with two 3-light casements and a blind slit above. The central gable features a cross window. To the right, there is a 2-storey wing that has a 10-light mullion and transom window with a relieving arch on the ground floor, along with a 3-light casement under the eaves, and quoins at the corners.
Attached to the right is a lower 2-storey L-plan wing, which has a 3-light casement with a relieving arch at the front and left on the ground floor, a 3-light casement under the eaves to the left, and a similar casement on the front gable end with a relieving arch and a blind slit above. The inner left return features a wide opening with a timber lintel and a 2-light casement with a relieving arch. The right return has a 3-light wooden casement on the ground floor and a lean-to porch, along with two 2-light casements under the eaves.
The rear of the farmhouse has various windows similar to those on the front, with a gable over the rear door that includes an overlight and a 3-light casement above. The gable end to the east of the lower wing has two cross windows on the ground floor, a 2-light casement on the first floor, and a blind slit above. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Parks Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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