Linhay, East of Castle Home Farmhouse Alongside Castle Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. Agricultural building.

Linhay, East of Castle Home Farmhouse Alongside Castle Hill

WRENN ID
fallen-pediment-cedar
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
Linhay, East of Castle Home Farmhouse Alongside Castle Hill, Dunster, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 991 435
Coordinates
51.18262, -3.44496
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The linhay, located east of Castle Home Farmhouse alongside Castle Hill, is likely from the early 19th century. It is constructed of random rubble red sandstone and features a pantile roof. The building has two storeys and is divided into six bays by circular, full-height stone piers. The ground floor openings have been blocked and replaced with later wooden casement windows and doors. Despite these alterations, the linhay is part of an interesting group of traditional agricultural buildings.

Local climate

Linhay, East of Castle Home Farmhouse Alongside Castle Hill 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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