Burrow Farmhouse, Wall Box, and Walls Enclosing Garden on South Front is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Burrow Farmhouse, Wall Box, and Walls Enclosing Garden on South Front
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-portal-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Burrow Farmhouse, Wall Box, and Walls Enclosing Garden on South Front, Wootton Courtenay, Somerset, TA24 7UD
- OS grid reference
- SS 938 421
- Coordinates
- 51.16833, -3.52018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burrow Farmhouse, along with a wall box and walls enclosing the garden on the south front, is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with enlargements made in the late 18th to early 19th century. The building is roughcast over rubble and features a thatched roof that is hipped to the left and half hipped on the cross wing to the right. There is a brick stack at the left end and a large lateral stack rising at the rear. The plan consists of three cells and a cross passage, with cross wings added in the end bays on the facade and the rear elevation.
The garden front is two storeys high and has six bays with a 1:6 ratio. Most windows are 19th-century three-light casements, except for the third bay on the left below the stack, which has a leaded three-light iron casement in the gable end of the cross wing. There is a 20th-century opening below this. The entrance is located between the fifth and sixth bays on the left. On the rear elevation, which faces the foldyard, there is a 17th-century ovolo moulded four-light window.
The interior has been extensively altered and lacks datable features, but it includes a collar beam roof. The garden front is enclosed by a low random rubble red sandstone wall that features a semi-circular headed wall box inset with the initials GR. This farmhouse forms a good group with the earlier farmhouse, which is now a barn, located across the foldyard.
Local climate
Burrow Farmhouse, Wall Box, and Walls Enclosing Garden on South Front 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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