Farthings and Abutting Wall Fronting Road is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Farthings and Abutting Wall Fronting Road
- WRENN ID
- stark-outpost-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- ST 200 270
- Coordinates
- 51.03697, -3.14181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late medieval farmhouse, now a dwelling, with details added in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The gables are thought to have been rebuilt, and the building was restored in the late 20th century. The walls are rendered cob and rubble, with a double Roman tiled roof. The north front has overhanging eaves with a soffit board, a large external stack on the south front, and a brick stack rising below the west gable end. The building is in an L-shape, originally an open hall which was ceiled to create a three-cell layout with a cross passage, and an agricultural wing adjoining the west gable end, which fronts the road.
The north front has two storeys and features 20th-century leaded windows. A two-light casement window is on the first floor to the right. On the ground floor, a two-light mullioned and transomed window is located to the left of the entrance. Above this window are remnants of a four-light cinquefoil-headed mullion. A large, pointed, chamfered doorframe is visible; the interior floor is plank. A raking buttress is on the left and to the left return. A long, rendered cob wall, approximately 2 metres high, extends to the right of the main building, fronting onto the road.
The rear elevation has a depressed four-centre arched, chamfered doorframe leading to the cross passage. The interior is not visible but is reported to contain remains of a stud and panel screen with a central square-headed entrance to the hall, together with the parlour. These rooms are said to have an unusual arrangement of ceiling beams, with three pairs of framed jointed cruck trusses displaying evidence of smoke blackening. There is also unusual framing to the truss above the kitchen end of the cross passage.
Local climate
Farthings and Abutting Wall Fronting Road receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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