Village Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Village Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-wattle-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Village Farmhouse, Aust, BS35 1NR
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 901
- Coordinates
- 51.60851, -2.5839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Village Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 17th century with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of rubble with roughcast and features pantiled roofs, gable stacks, and a double Roman tiled porch. The building has a T-plan layout, including a projecting front wing. It stands two storeys high and has a window arrangement of 1:3, with all 20th-century wooden casements consisting of one, two, or three lights. The porch, located in the third bay from the right, has a panelled and glass door, and there are three skylights in the roof. The north wing has two 20th-century windows and a door in the north gable end, while the south side features a conservatory and a single light window in the gable. The rear of the house has a window arrangement of 4:1, with all being two-light casements, and a panelled and glass door in the second bay from the left. The lower wing has a four-light casement.
Inside, there is a through passage and a former dairy with a cheese loft above to the north. The central room contains stopped beams and a lintel above the fireplace, with a brick bread oven in the east reveal. In the east wall, there is a small spice cupboard with a door featuring scratch mouldings and butterfly hinges. The south room also has stopped beams and a fireplace lintel. A cellar under part of the house has a chamfered and stopped door frame that has been cut back for the passage of barrels.
Local climate
Village 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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