Duddlestone Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. Farmhouse.

Duddlestone Farmhouse

WRENN ID
idle-chamber-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Duddlestone Farmhouse, Pitminster
OS grid reference
ST 235 211
Coordinates
50.98432, -3.09112
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Duddlestone Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was later divided into two dwellings. It dates back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and the late 20th century. The building features roughcast and slobbered rubble, a slate roof with overhanging eaves, and brick stacks at the gable ends, with a rebuilt stack to the right of the cross passage.

The layout is not entirely clear without an internal inspection, but it appears to be a long range lying east-west, possibly consisting of three cells and a cross passage, with a stair turret on the left side of the cross passage doorway. This stair turret is partially obscured by a two-cell, single-storey wing to the north-west, which has an outshut, and there is another wing in the south-west corner.

On the north front, the end bay to the left of the stair turret is concealed by a hipped slate-roofed wing. The full-height gabled stair turret features two two-light, steeply chamfered wooden mullioned windows. To the right on the first floor are two three-light, ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, with similar windows on the ground floor to the right. The original entrance is located beside the stair turret, featuring a good moulded door frame with stops and an inserted plank door, which is sheltered by a rustic thatched porch situated between the first and second bays on the right. The south front has been refenestrated in the 20th century. The interior was not fully inspected, but the north-east wing contains a frayed partition with brick nogging and a tie beam roof.

Local climate

Duddlestone Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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