Hamlyn's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A Post-Medieval Farmhouse.
Hamlyn's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-keystone-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Hamlyn's Farmhouse, Main Road, Long Load
- OS grid reference
- ST 466 235
- Coordinates
- 51.00903, -2.7617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hamlyn's Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse located on Main Road, dating from the 17th century. It is constructed from local grey lias stone that has been cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings and a thatched roof featuring coped gables. The building has two storeys and consists of five bays, with the fourth and fifth bays being an 18th-century addition.
On the ground floor, there are 3-light ovolo-mould mullioned windows in the first and third bays, along with a moulded cambered-arched doorway in the second bay that has incised spandrils. This doorway features an 18th-century panelled and glazed door, and the shared label above is interrupted by the lintel over the doorway. The upper floor has 3-light horizontal-bar casements under timber lintels. The lower fourth and fifth bays contain a 2-light and a 3-light beaded mullioned window in an architrave, while the upper fifth bay has another 3-light casement.
At the rear, there is an early outshut, and against the south gable, there is an outbuilding with a very shallow pitch triple-roll clay tile roof and a coped gable. This outbuilding has a segmental arched doorway in the south gable and was formerly used as a chaff house and wagon shed. Although the interior has not been seen, it is reported to have a two-room through passage layout with an early outshut, featuring two fireplaces in the original gable walls and stop-chamfered beams with step and run-out stops.
Local climate
Hamlyn's Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 62% 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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