Balster's Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A Late C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Balster's Farm House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-cornice-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Balster's Farm House, Lower Street, West and Middle Chinnock, TA18 7PT
- OS grid reference
- ST 468 136
- Coordinates
- 50.9199, -2.75738
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Balster's Farm House is a farmhouse that possibly dates from the late 17th century and has undergone some modifications. It is constructed of local stone rubble, partly cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and features coped gables, along with a modern brick stack on the north gable. The building has a through passage plan and is two stories tall with four bays.
On the ground floor, there are hollow chamfered mullioned windows with labels in bays one, two, and four, and a flat-headed doorway in bay three. Above these, there are three-light casement windows that include single horizontal glazing bars. The north gable shows a bulge that may indicate the position of a former oven, and there is a massive single-stone gatepost located at the northeast corner.
Local climate
Balster's Farm House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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