Cushuish Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Cushuish Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-merlon-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cushuish Farmhouse, Cothelstone, TA2 8AP
- OS grid reference
- ST 197 305
- Coordinates
- 51.06823, -3.14642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cushuish Farmhouse is a late 16th- to early 17th-century farmhouse, renovated in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of rough-cast cob and random rubble, with a slate roof that is hipped to the left and gabled to the right, with sprockets projecting below the eaves. A large external stack is located on the rear elevation, with a bread oven projection, and a smaller stack projects from the left return elevation. The farmhouse is arranged in an "L" shape, with the facade facing south. The wing return is on the north-west side, set into a hillside, with an independently roofed addition in the angle to the north-east.
The front of the farmhouse is two storeys with three bays, featuring 19th-century three-light casement windows. A gabled porch is positioned centrally with two-light glazing above. A projecting bay on the south-east side has a three-light casement and a small glazed opening to the right.
Inside, the front room on the right side of the house contains a large chamber to the right of a blocked fireplace, with smoke blackening on the inserted ceiling above, which is partially cob-lined, and with a blocked flue. A circular bacon curing chamber is located to the left, now accessed from the present-day kitchen on the north side, which also has a blocked bread oven. Chamfered beams are present in two central rooms on the east front, which includes a cider house at the north end containing late 19th-century machinery.
Local climate
Cushuish 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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