Washingpool Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Farmhouse.
Washingpool Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tenth-thatch-sunrise
- 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
- Washingpool Farmhouse, Almondsbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 570 830
- Coordinates
- 51.54507, -2.62097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Washingpool Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse that has been altered and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of rubble with stone dressings, featuring a concrete tiled front roof and double Roman tiles at the rear. The building has weathered coped verges with kneelers at the gables and gable stacks, forming a U-plan structure.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three windows, all of which are 19th-century casements with three and four lights, segmental heads, and flat timber lintels with drip moulds above. There is a central porch with a pointed arched opening in a stone surround, also with a drip mould. A small bull's eye window in a similar stone surround is located in the gable, with slit recesses on each side wall. The entrance features a four-panelled door with a Tudor-arched head. At the attic level, there are two bull's eye windows in stone surrounds on the sides.
To the left, there is a 20th-century extension, while the rear wings have gable ends with a curtain wall between them, enclosing a courtyard. The right rear wing has a decorative wooden valance under the eaves and Tudor-arched headed casements on the first floor. Inside, the layout follows a cross passage plan with a winder stair at the rear. The front two rooms contain 19th-century marble fireplaces, and the rear wings house service rooms, including a former dairy and cider room to the west.
Local climate
Washingpool Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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