Batcombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Farmhouse.
Batcombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-flagstone-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Batcombe Farmhouse, Cheddar
- OS grid reference
- ST 475 516
- Coordinates
- 51.26134, -2.75267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Batcombe Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with 20th-century window features on its front. The building is rendered with a slate roof and has wide eaves and end brick stacks. It features a projecting two-storey rubble porch with a coped gable and an elaborate finial on the front. The symmetrical facade has three storeys and two bays, with three-light transomed wooden casements, except for the three-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned windows on the first floor of the porch, which have leaded lights. The central door opening is recessed and features a studded and ribbed door set in an ovolo-moulded wooden surround.
Local climate
Batcombe Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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