Knowlerock Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Knowlerock Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- graven-gable-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Knowlerock Farmhouse, Shepton Montague, BA9 8JA
- OS grid reference
- ST 703 312
- Coordinates
- 51.07961, -2.42429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowlerock Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins dating back to the 17th century. It is constructed from local stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with gable overhangs and brick chimney stacks. The building originally had a cruciform plan and consists of two storeys with an attic, with a single bay on each face.
The east elevation has been altered and now presents four bays, with the second bay projecting and the fourth bay being a 20th-century extension that has a plain clay tile roof. The windows are primarily horizontal bar casement types, except for the upper window in bay two, which is a three-light reserve chamfer window without a label, and the upper window in bay three, which is similar but has a label and early leaded lights. There is a segmental arched doorway cut into the lower bay three, with part of the label from a former window still visible.
At the rear, there are further reserve chamfer windows, including a two-light window on the first floor and a single light window in the attic, the latter featuring vertical iron bars. Inside, the north room has a large plain chamfered camber arched fireplace, while the south room contains a fireplace with a bowed timber arch. The roof frame is a collar truss type, with collars that are half-scarfed and bolted, and the purlins are tenoned.
Local climate
Knowlerock Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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