Chitcombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1986. A Post-Medieval Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Chitcombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hushed-loggia-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Chitcombe Farmhouse, Huish Champflower, TA4 2EL
- OS grid reference
- ST 020 310
- Coordinates
- 51.06998, -3.39894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chitcombe Farmhouse is a longhouse that has been converted into a farmhouse. It dates back to the 16th century, although the lower end has been rebuilt. The building was extended with a store at the upper end and underwent reroofing and refenestration in the 19th century. The exterior is rendered over rubble, with slate roofs that extend to the left over a former curing chamber and an addition to the west. The central section features roughcast and a rebuilt brick chimney, while the lower east end has an independently roofed section that extends as a catslide over the dairy. A 20th-century roughcast stack rises from the centre of the eaves.
The farmhouse faces south and is situated on a steeply sloping site that descends to the east. It likely has a two-cell plan typical of longhouses, with an extension to the west for the store and a rebuilt east end that includes a single cell accessed through a passage, with a dairy beyond. The building has two storeys and is composed of one and two bays, featuring late 19th-century and early 20th-century casement windows. The left end bay has a loft over the store, and there is a square-headed doorway. The windows open to the wall of the former curing chamber, with a three-light window on the first floor and a similar window below to the left of the door, along with a two-light window beyond. The lower block has a two-light window on the first floor, nesting boxes at the end, and one window to the right and two to the left of a plank door on the ground floor.
Inside, the kitchen features chamfered beams with scroll stops, and there is a chamfered lintel above the fireplace with remnants of the curing chamber to the left. A stair has been inserted against the rear wall, and another stair projects from the rear wall of the central room. Beyond, there are chamfered beams with steps and run-out stops that may have been reset or are very late. On the upper storey, there is a six-panel raised and fielded door, and it appears that the roof was replaced in the 19th century.
Local climate
Chitcombe Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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