Staple Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Staple Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusk-flagstone-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Staple Farmhouse, Staple Fitzpaine
- OS grid reference
- ST 268 184
- Coordinates
- 50.96097, -3.04339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Staple Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1840. It features squared and coursed blue lias stone, with a rendered south front and a hipped slate roof. The building has large brick stacks on the returns and is designed as a double pile facing east. It stands two storeys tall with three bays, showcasing 12-pane sash windows that include marginal glazing bars. The central entrance has a semi-circular headed doorway with a six-panel door and a fanlight with radiating bars. The left return, or south front, also has three bays with similar window styles. Staple Farmhouse is part of the former Portman estate.
Local climate
Staple Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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