Lower Ruggin Farmhouse and Outbuilding Adjoining to South is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Lower Ruggin Farmhouse and Outbuilding Adjoining to South

WRENN ID
seventh-cupola-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1986
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
ST 183 186
Coordinates
50.96143, -3.16454
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Ruggin Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around 1820-1830, with an enlargement around 1870. It features a rendered facade, with slobbered rubble on the left return and at the rear. The roof has a shallow pitch, is hipped, and covered with slate, with overhanging eaves and a soffit board. Brick stacks rise from the eaves on the right side. The layout likely consists of two cells and a cross passage, with two additional rooms flanking the rear entrance. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays, with 16-pane sash windows, a flat string course band, and a gabled late 19th-century brick porch. There are stepped buttresses and a segmental headed opening. The right return, or north front, is lit only on the ground floor to the right and in both floors of the outshot. The rear elevation features a gable top to a stair light that projects through the eaves at the center, along with a segmental headed opening forming a deep porch, with a 20th-century door and windows.

Adjoining the farmhouse to the south is a barn made of red brick, with a clay tiled roof that has a half hipped west gable end on the facade. It has 2-light trefoil headed stone windows on the first floor, likely from the 19th century, although there is a possibility of medieval origins. The entire structure is only partially visible, and the interiors were not accessible during the survey in March 1985.

Local climate

Lower Ruggin Farmhouse and Outbuilding Adjoining to South receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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