Highbrooks is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Highbrooks

WRENN ID
watchful-brick-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Highbrooks, Somerton, TA11 7HZ
OS grid reference
ST 494 259
Coordinates
51.03044, -2.72159
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Highbrooks is an 18th-century farmhouse located in Somerton. The building is constructed of local lias stone with squared cutting and Hamstone dressings. The roof is covered in plain clay tiles between stepped coped gables, with ashlar stone chimney stacks at the ends. The farmhouse has a ‘T’ shape, two storeys and an attic. The main three-bay section has a projecting central gable. A band course runs between the floors. The windows are 16-pane sashes, set within architraved surrounds. The returns of the projecting gable feature 8-pane sashes on both floors, and a small rectangular window is located in the attic gable. A lean-to extension is attached to the east gable. The west gable has a matching architraved window and a doorway set within an architraved surround with a flat hood, which potentially dates from an earlier period. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Highbrooks receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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