Chidgley Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Chidgley Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- waning-sentry-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Chidgley Hill Farmhouse, Old Cleeve, Somerset, TA23 0LS
- OS grid reference
- ST 047 364
- Coordinates
- 51.11926, -3.36158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chidgley Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, with partial rebuilding in the late 18th to early 19th century. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and features a thatched roof that is hipped on the right side, with a brick stack located to the left of the entrance and at the left gable end. The building has a plan consisting of three cells and a cross passage, modified with a hipped gable end facing the road.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays. It includes two-light dormer casements, two 20th-century windows to the left of the entrance on the ground floor, and a two-light casement to the right. The entrance features a 20th-century plank door. The right return has a two-light dormer casement and an illegibly inscribed plaque below it, along with two two-light casements on the ground floor.
Although the interior was not viewed, it is reported to contain a four-panel compartment ceiling with hollow chamfered beams, one of which is inscribed with the date 1583. There is also a chamfered wooden lintel over the fireplace that includes a bread oven. At one time, the building was divided into two cottages and possibly even three.
Local climate
Chidgley Hill Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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