Lower Witcombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Lower Witcombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallow-alcove-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Witcombe Farmhouse, Witcombe Lane, Ash, TA12 6AJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 476 217
- Coordinates
- 50.99319, -2.74679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Witcombe Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 17th century. It is constructed from ham stone that resembles ashlar and features a thatched roof with a coped gable on the south side and a half-hipped roof on the north. The building has brick chimney stacks with traditional baffles.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and consists of four bays. Most of the windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned windows, with three lights in the lower and upper bay three, while the other bays have two-light windows. There is an additional two-light window to the left of lower bay one and a cusped-traceried oval window in lower bay two, with labels above all lower windows except for the oval window. The south gable has later mullioned windows, and there is an outshut with an entrance at the rear. The north gable features a three-light and a two-light mullioned window. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Lower Witcombe Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 4 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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