Hamwood Farmhouse and Wall Abutting North Corner with Gatepiers and Gate is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Hamwood Farmhouse and Wall Abutting North Corner with Gatepiers and Gate
- WRENN ID
- quartered-fireplace-cedar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- ST 197 211
- Coordinates
- 50.9837, -3.14525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hamwood Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with a boundary wall to the garden, located at the north corner and featuring gatepiers and a gate. The building was restored in the late 20th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond with a rubble plinth and Ham stone dressings, showcasing striping on the porch, slate roofs, overhanging eaves, and a bargeboarded gable front on the right. The farmhouse has a stone stack on the left gable end and another at the center of the crosswing.
The structure is L-shaped, with a full-height porch and stair turret facing a two-cell cross passage that includes a back-to-back fireplace on the northeast front. It is two storeys tall with a symmetrical arrangement of bays, featuring a gabled right bay with 17th-century three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned ashlar windows under hood moulds. The two-light porch interrupts the string course and has a finely carved coat of arms to the left above a four-centred arch-moulded door frame, with 19th-century half-glazed double doors. The right return has one and a half bays with a small light in between, likely for the stair.
The rear elevation includes a moulded four-centred arch head door frame with a 17th-century four by five panelled door leading to the cross passage, and a similar door frame for a doorway aligned with the courtyard at the back. The interior has not been seen but is said to contain a very fine east gable end fireplace with a four-centred head moulded lintel and spandrels carved with a herringbone pattern. This farmhouse is a rare example of a 17th-century brick house that remains largely unaltered. The coat of arms is believed to belong to John Baker of Hamwood, who died in 1677, and there is a memorial to him in the Church of All Saints, Trull.
Local climate
Hamwood Farmhouse and Wall Abutting North Corner with Gatepiers and Gate receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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