The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-newel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, Somerton Door Drove
- OS grid reference
- ST 470 300
- Coordinates
- 51.0673, -2.75726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse located on the east side of Somerton Door Drove in Somerton. It is constructed from local lias stone and rendered with false ashlar lining, topped with a double Roman clay tile roof featuring plain gables and truncated brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has hollow chamfered mullioned windows with unworked top mitres, featuring three lights in the outer bays and two lights in the upper bay of the second section, with a continuous label over the lower windows. There is a boarded door in a plain opening in the second bay. The interior has not been seen, and the house was no longer inhabited as of August 1984.
Local climate
The Old Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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