Granary, Castle Home Farmyard is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. Agricultural building.

Granary, Castle Home Farmyard

WRENN ID
winter-lancet-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1983
Type
Agricultural building
Address
Granary, Castle Home Farmyard, Castle Hill, Dunster, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 991 436
Coordinates
51.18279, -3.4446
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The granary at Castle Home Farmyard is an early 19th-century building made of brick, topped with a double Roman tiled, hipped roof. This small square structure has one and a half storeys and features steps leading up to the granary floor. Each elevation has two brick segmental arches that provide openings to the basement. The granary also includes a plain boarded door. It is considered a good example of a local agricultural building.

Local climate

Granary, Castle Home Farmyard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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