Culverhays Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Farmhouse.
Culverhays Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-hall-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Culverhays Farmhouse, Bicknoller, TA4 4EX
- OS grid reference
- ST 109 381
- Coordinates
- 51.13559, -3.27377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Culverhays Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been extensively altered in the late 20th century. The building features roughcast over random rubble, a wooden wall plate, and thatched roofs, with the block to the left having a higher roof. There are stone stacks at the left gable ends.
The plan consists of two cells to the left of a cross passage, with an independently roofed block to the right that has been much altered and is therefore not included in the listing, although it was originally part of the building. The evolution of the three independently roofed blocks is unclear. The farmhouse is one and a half storeys high, with all windows dating from the 20th century. It has three three-light dormers, one on the right with a weatherboarded gable. The ground floor contains two three-light windows in the left block and a two-light window on the right, along with a partially glazed 20th-century door in the left end bay. There is a thatched hipped porch and a central plank door in a brick projection with sidelights and raking brick buttresses, while the right return is weatherboarded with a cat slide roof. The main entrance is now in a lean-to addition on the right, and there is a bread oven on the left return.
Inside, there is evidence of a plank screen to the left of the cross passage, chamfered beads with enriched stops, and exposed rafters, most of which have been renewed. The interior also features an open fireplace and chamfered beams in the outer room, along with another open fireplace.
Local climate
Culverhays Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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