Tolleys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Tolleys Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crooked-lantern-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Tolleys Farmhouse, Tolleys Lane, Chaffcombe, TA20 4AB
- OS grid reference
- ST 357 088
- Coordinates
- 50.87583, -2.91492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tolleys Farmhouse is a detached house dating from the 15th century, with some modifications. It is built from local stone rubble, with some cob, and is rendered and colourwashed. The roof is half-hipped and thatched, featuring brick chimney stacks. The house is single-storey with an attic and consists of four bays. The windows are mostly casement style, with horizontal bars; there are three-light windows below, except for the fourth bay which has a two-light window. Above, bays one, three, and four have two-light windows set into thatched dormers, while bay two features an earlier pattern four-light casement also set into thatch. There is a 20th-century porch with a 20th-century doorway located between bays two and three. Additional casement windows are present in the north gable, and there is a lean-to at the rear.
Inside, the farmhouse has a deep-chamfered crossbeam in the lower ceilings, one of which has a long step and runouts, along with sockets and mortices for wattle and doorframes. There are two old simple fireplaces, both adapted. The roof frame consists of four pairs of jointed crucks with trenched purlins, and there is one wattle-and-daub partition on the first floor. Originally a single house, it was later subdivided into two or three houses but has since been restored to one property. The foundations of a previous farmhouse on this site are said to survive to the west. The settlement has been recorded since 1170.
Local climate
Tolleys Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- 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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