Box Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Box Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-baluster-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Box Farmhouse, Wells Road, Wedmore, BS28 4SL
- OS grid reference
- ST 458 463
- Coordinates
- 51.2135, -2.77612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on the north side of Wells Road in Theale, Wedmore. It is constructed of painted rubble and features a double Roman tile roof with three brick ridge stacks. The building likely follows a cross passage plan and is two storeys high with three bays. The windows are 19th-century two-light casements that have horizontal glazing bars, with those on the ground floor set in reveals and featuring cambered heads. There is a door opening situated between the first and second bays, which contains a six-panelled door with the centre panel of the top three being glazed. Inside, the farmhouse has exposed ceiling beams.
Local climate
Box Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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