Rhode Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Rhode Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-cobble-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rhode Farmhouse, Rhode Lane, North Petherton, TA5 2AD
- OS grid reference
- ST 274 344
- Coordinates
- 51.10485, -3.0371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rhode Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that was restored in 1855. It is constructed of rubble with brick quoins and features coped verges. The roof is covered with triple Roman tiles and has brick ridge stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays, with three and five-light stone-mullioned windows, each light containing a casement with glazing bars. There are drips above the ground floor windows. The entrance is through a 19th-century gabled porch with paired half-glazed doors.
Local climate
Rhode Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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