Ash Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. Farmhouse. 16 related planning applications.
Ash Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-hinge-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ash Tree Farmhouse, Old Ditch, Westbury, BA5 1HN
- OS grid reference
- ST 502 492
- Coordinates
- 51.24002, -2.71451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ash Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is constructed from colourwashed rubble and features a slate roof with coped verges and three brick stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a layout of one bay on the left and three bays on the right. It has 12-pane sash windows with exposed sash boxes and shallow reveals. The door opening is located in the centre of the right three bays and features a 20th-century three-quarter glazed door. To the left of the ground floor, there is a two-light metal casement window. Inside, the farmhouse has lias flagstones and retains the remains of a bread oven.
Local climate
Ash Tree Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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