Purtington House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Purtington House
- WRENN ID
- plain-moat-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Purtington House, Limekiln Lane, Winsham, TA20 4DH
- OS grid reference
- ST 389 089
- Coordinates
- 50.87708, -2.86912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Purtington House is a detached farmhouse dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of local stone with a rendered finish and features Ham stone ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and has stepped coped gables, along with stone and brick chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys high with a four-bay east elevation. It has a plinth and a string course above the first floor. The windows are shallow hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered surrounds. The outer bays on both levels have angled bay windows with one light on the sides and three lights in the middle. The first-floor middle windows are three-light with labels.
A notable feature is the projecting flat-roofed porch that spans the second and third ground floor bays. This porch includes a plinth, angled corner buttresses, a string course, and a moulded coped plain parapet. The sides of the porch have single-light windows with a four-centre arch, while the front has a cambered arched doorway beneath a deep square lintel with carved panelled spandrels. There is a lean-to structure against the north gable, a wing wall with a sweep against the south gable, and extensions at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Purtington House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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