Blake's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Farmhouse.
Blake's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lone-finial-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Blake's Farmhouse, Halse
- OS grid reference
- ST 139 282
- Coordinates
- 51.04712, -3.2283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blake's Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse located in Halse. The building is rendered over cob and features a thatched roof with a brick stack on the right and a stone stack on the left. It has one and a half storeys and consists of four bays. The farmhouse includes 4-light mullion windows, with a first-floor window that has gables projecting through the eaves, and a tiny 2-light window on the right, which may have originally lit the staircase bay. There is a buttress on the left side. The centrally placed cob porch has a gabled thatched roof and built-in seats. The doorway features a 4-centred arch with ovolo moulded surrounds and run-outs, and it is partially restored with a plank door that has ornamental hinges. Although the interior was not viewed, it is reputed to contain good plasterwork.
Local climate
Blake's Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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