Simon's Holt Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Simon's Holt Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- over-corner-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Simon's Holt Farmhouse, Blackwater Lane, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 074 297
- Coordinates
- 51.0594, -3.32181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Simon's Holt Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with an addition from the 18th century. It is constructed of rendered cob and random rubble, featuring a slate roof on the right-hand block and Bridgwater patents on the slightly higher and steeper left-hand block. The layout includes a cross passage with a hall to the left, an 18th-century room beyond, and a kitchen to the right. There is external access only to the cider house, with a storage room located between. At the rear, there is an outshut. The building has two storeys and a façade with two bays on one side and three on the other, with windows that are irregularly placed, mostly consisting of 20th-century casements. The entrance is located to the right of the tiled block, featuring a coursed rubble porch with a double Roman tiled roof. There is also an entrance to the cider house with a wooden lintel to the right. Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered beams with stops, and the 18th-century addition includes bolection moulding above the fireplace, flanked by shell-headed niches, one of which has been removed.
Local climate
Simon's Holt Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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