Bridge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. Farmhouse.
Bridge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- south-cupola-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bridge Farmhouse, Lopen
- OS grid reference
- ST 428 139
- Coordinates
- 50.922, -2.81507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse that possibly dates back to the 15th century, with reshaping occurring in the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries. It features a ham stone ashlar facade, with coursed rubble on the sides and rear, and a double Roman clay tiled roof between high stepped coped gables that suggest it may have originally been thatched. The building has brick end and intermediate chimney stacks and is designed in an 'L' plan, standing two storeys tall with a four-bay east elevation.
The farmhouse has a plinth, with hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, consisting of three and four lights in bays one and three, and reverse-chamfer mullioned windows of three lights in chamfered recess in bay four, all featuring labels. Above these, there are three-light horizontal-bar casements. In lower bay two, there is a 20th-century door set in a plain recess, accessed by one step. The south gable has a blocked doorway below and a blocked window on the first floor, while the north gable has 20th-century windows and an extension at the rear.
Although the interior has not been seen, it is reported to have a three-room cross-passage plan with a single-room rear wing of original date. This includes remains of three jointed crucks, two of which are smoke blackened, and some cob walling at the rear. The hall fireplace is blocked, as is a section of the surviving stair alongside it. The south room features a six-section beam and panel ceiling, with unusually sized panels that appear unaltered; this room is currently used as a store and retains an earth floor. The wing houses the kitchen, which includes a fireplace, a brick oven, and traces of a curing chamber. Some carved initials from the 17th and 18th centuries can be found on the hall fireplace.
Local climate
Bridge Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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