Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1986. Rectory.
Rectory Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- woven-trefoil-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1986
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Rectory Farmhouse, Chipstable
- OS grid reference
- ST 019 258
- Coordinates
- 51.02392, -3.39925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Farmhouse is an early 19th-century building that now serves as a dwelling. It was constructed on the site of an earlier rectory and underwent changes in the late 20th century, including refenestration. The exterior features red sandstone random rubble that is rendered on the facade, with a slate roof and brick stacks flanking the central bay. The house is double-piled and has two storeys with three bays. The windows are pointed arch head 2-light casements, and there is a central entrance with a square head, a rectangular light, and a half-glazed door that has pointed arch glazing. There are two bay returns on the sides. It is said to contain king post roof trusses similar to those found at Kingston Farmhouse. The pointed arch heads were added in the late 1970s to the existing many-paned 2-light casements. The rectory was sold by the Church Commissioners in the 1970s after the ecclesiastical parish of Raddington was incorporated into Chipstable in 1933.
Local climate
Rectory Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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