Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-keystone-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, High Street, Wookey, BA5 1JX
- OS grid reference
- ST 518 458
- Coordinates
- 51.20959, -2.69042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse, later used as a house, with alterations dating to the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with double and triple Roman tile roofs and coped verges. Brick stacks are also present. The farmhouse has two storeys and a 1:2:2 bay layout, featuring 3-light casement windows beneath wooden lintols. A virtually central doorway is framed by a moulded stone surround featuring a 4-centred head, and has a ribbed plank door. The interior contains a 16th-century doorway.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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