Nightingale Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Nightingale Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- proud-zinc-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Nightingale Farmhouse, Brent Street, Brent Knoll, TA9 4BB
- OS grid reference
- ST 332 508
- Coordinates
- 51.2526, -2.95749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nightingale Farmhouse is a mid-17th century farmhouse, now a house. It is constructed of painted Flemish bond brickwork, with a projecting brick bond visible on the first floor. The roof is of double-Roman tiles with coped verges, and there are brick stacks at the ends. The building is symmetrical, with two storeys and an attic. The first floor has three 3-light casement windows with horizontal glazing bars. The ground floor has four 2-light casement windows with similar glazing, all with lintols featuring emphasised keys. A central door opening has a 20th century half-glazed door and a gabled brick porch.
Local climate
Nightingale Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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