Midknowle Farmhouse with Railings, Wall and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Midknowle Farmhouse with Railings, Wall and Gate

WRENN ID
twisted-minaret-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 March 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Midknowle Farmhouse with Railings, Wall and Gate, South Barrow, BA22 7LR
OS grid reference
ST 605 285
Coordinates
51.05527, -2.56379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Midknowle Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating to 1853. It is constructed of brick, rendered and with Doulting stone dressings, and has a double Roman clay tile roof with stepped coped gables and ball finials. A central brick chimney stack rises from the roof. The two-storey farmhouse with an attic has two bays. The west elevation incorporates plain end pilasters and 16-pane sash windows within keystoned segmental-arched openings. A projecting, flat-roofed stone porch with a plinth, cornice moulds, and a shallow parapet is positioned between the bays. It has double, part-glazed doors, a small wood lattice porch, and a rectangular plaque above with the raised lettering "BW/1853". Matching windows are found in the north gable end. The interior was not inspected during the listing process.

A brick wall, in Flemish bond, extends from the northwest corner. It has stone copings, brick piers with pyramidal caps, and an arrow-pointed railed gate with urn finials to the supports. A low railing with arrowheads runs from one gatepier, back one meter north of the house gable, returning to the northeast corner, and contributes to the setting of the farmhouse.

Local climate

Midknowle Farmhouse with Railings, Wall and Gate receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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