Burleaze Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Farmhouse.
Burleaze Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- kindled-shingle-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Burleaze Farmhouse, Old Way, Ilton
- OS grid reference
- ST 357 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94685, -2.91662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burleaze Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 17th century and later. It is constructed of local stone rubble, mostly rendered, with some ashlar dressings, and features a hipped thatched roof along with brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. The building has a 'T'-plan layout, is two storeys high, and consists of five bays.
The upper storey has a variety of leaded casement windows with three, two, three, four, and four lights, which include rectangular panes and iron-framed opening lights. The fourth upper bay has a hollow-chamfer mullioned frame. The lower storey features similar windows in bays one and three, while bays four and five have 20th-century casements. In the second lower bay, there is an open rendered porch topped with a double Roman clay tiled roof.
To the west, there is an unrendered farm building extension that includes a stable door and one casement window below, as well as a loft door above, with an additional lean-to against the west gable. The rear of the house has a long extension with a corrugated iron sheet roof. The rear elevation features similar casements, but on the ground floor, there is one three-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window set in a chamfered recess with a label. Additionally, there are two lean-to buildings, one with a Welsh slate roof and the other with triple-roll clay tiles.
The interior has not been seen, but it is reported to include chamfered cross-beams with step and run-out stops, possible old fireplaces in the hall and east gable, a post and truss partition with wattle rod and daub infill, and tie-beam trusses. A lease from 1696 exists, and the farm was part of the Wyndham Estate until 1919.
Local climate
Burleaze Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% 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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