Ford Farmhouse and Railings in Retaining Wall Fronting Road is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Farmhouse.
Ford Farmhouse and Railings in Retaining Wall Fronting Road
- WRENN ID
- high-step-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ford Farmhouse and Railings in Retaining Wall Fronting Road, Moor Lane, Churchstanton
- OS grid reference
- ST 215 124
- Coordinates
- 50.90609, -3.11774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse built from random rubble chert stone, topped with a slate roof and featuring brick stacks at the gable ends. The building is designed in an L-shape, with the main entrance located on the gable end facing the road to the northeast, while the longer foldyard frontage faces northwest.
The northeast front has two storeys with a symmetrical arrangement of bays. On the first floor, there is a three-light leaded iron casement window on the left and a similar window below it. To the right in the gable end, there is a 20th-century window above a panelled door. The right return of the building, which leads onto the foldyard, has two leaded three-light casements on the first floor, and a catslide roof from the eaves level creates a porch and outshot at the kitchen end. The ground floor on the right features similar windows and a square-headed doorway. The interior has not been seen.
In front of the main elevation facing the road, there are cast iron railings set in a random rubble retaining wall.
Local climate
Ford Farmhouse and Railings in Retaining Wall Fronting Road receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% 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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