Charity Farmhouse and Gateway Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Charity Farmhouse and Gateway Adjoining

WRENN ID
stranded-loggia-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Charity Farmhouse and Gateway Adjoining, BA7 7PY
OS grid reference
ST 596 307
Coordinates
51.0749, -2.57703
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Charity Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 17th century and later, located in Lovington Village. It is constructed from local lias stone that is cut and squared, with Doulting stone dressings. The farmhouse features a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with coped gables and brick chimney stacks at the ends and in the middle. The building has two storeys and four bays, with a plinth and a band course. It has 2-light mullioned windows with plain surrounds and architraves, while bay 3 has single light windows on both levels. Between the first and second bays, there is a 20th-century lean-to porch with a glazed door.

Attached to the northeast corner of the farmhouse is a gateway that features a pair of ashlar gatepiers. These gatepiers have plinths, plain shafts with rebates for gates, cornice tops with steps, and necked bases, although the urn or ball finials are missing. The interior of the farmhouse has not been seen, but reports indicate that it originally had a three-room plan with a cross passage. It includes chamfered beams with stop and runouts, as well as scroll stops. There is a fireplace with an oven in the north gable and a central small fireplace that has a wood panel above it, featuring a painted view of the house from the 18th century. The south room has moulded plasterwork on its beams. The house is noted to have had a formal garden, which is unusual for a farmhouse, if the painting is accurate.

Local climate

Charity Farmhouse and Gateway Adjoining 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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