Spark Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Farmhouse.
Spark Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fossil-landing-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Spark Farmhouse, Leigh Street, Leigh-On-Mendip
- OS grid reference
- ST 689 473
- Coordinates
- 51.22408, -2.44553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spark Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1690, with late 19th century additions and alterations. It has a rendered exterior, plain tile roofs, brick stacks, and coped verges. The building has a "T"-plan layout, consisting of three bays and two storeys, with the centre bay featuring a projecting gable. It includes 2-light ovolo moulded stone mullioned windows, although some have been replaced by casements. There is a plain door opening on the left side with a 20th-century door. A datestone on the face of the centre gable reads "E.S. 1690".
Local climate
Spark Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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