Prater's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1951. A C17 Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Prater's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- outer-gable-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Prater's Farmhouse, Sherston, SN16 0PS
- OS grid reference
- ST 857 862
- Coordinates
- 51.5752, -2.20735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Former farmhouse, now a country house, dating from the early 17th century with an addition built in the late 17th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with stone dressings and has gabled stone slate roofs and stone stacks. It follows an L-shaped plan, with the original early 17th-century range set at right angles to the road and a later 17th-century block running parallel to the west. The central part of the original range is two storeys with a three-window front, while the later block is two storeys and has an attic, also with a three-window front. The windows on the original range have two lights with cavetto-moulded mullions and small leaded pane casements. The windows on the later block have two and three lights with ovolo-moulded mullions and small leaded pane casements, featuring strainer arches above the ground and first-floor windows, and two gables containing attic windows. A late 19th-century doorcase, with a gabled hood on brackets, is positioned slightly off-centre on the left side of the original range. The interior includes extensive restoration work, retaining chamfered beams, two inglenook fireplaces (one in each range), some 17th-century panelled doors, and a butt-purlin, tie-beam roof structure in the late 17th-century block.
Local climate
Prater's Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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