Walcombe's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Farmhouse.
Walcombe's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- broken-banister-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Walcombe's Farmhouse, Lydeard St. Lawrence
- OS grid reference
- ST 144 340
- Coordinates
- 51.09936, -3.22349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walcombe's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. The building is rendered over rubble and features a hipped tile roof on the left side, with a tall brick chimney rising from the eaves, as well as another brick chimney at the right gable end and to the left of a subsidiary entrance, which was originally the back door of the cross passage that faced the farmyard.
The farmhouse is arranged in a three-cell layout with a cross passage and is two stories high. The windows are irregularly placed and date from the late 19th century, with four 3-light casements on the first floor and 3-light windows on either side of a 20th-century gabled porch on the ground floor. To the right, there is a single bay projection with a catslide roof and a 2-light window.
Although the interior was not viewed, it is reputed to contain chamfered beams with stops and a curing chamber in the kitchen behind the projection. There is an unusually high wall to the left of the cross passage, featuring a 4-panel hollow chamfered ceiling and a fine 9-panel moulded compartment ceiling with a bulbous pendant.
Local climate
Walcombe's Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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