Knight's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Farmhouse.
Knight's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-remnant-moon
- 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
- Knight's Farmhouse, West Fitzhead
- OS grid reference
- ST 113 284
- Coordinates
- 51.04841, -3.2664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knight's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with an enlargement from the 18th century. It is constructed of cob and random rubble, rendered, with a slate roof and stone stacks on both the left and right of the center, while the right gable end is brick. The layout consists of two cells with a cross passage, and there is an addition to the right, which is fronted by a gabled projection that may have been an earlier dwelling. The building is two stories high with irregularly placed windows. The left side features a single-story porch from the 17th century, which has a four-centered arch doorway and a catslide roof. The right gabled projection is two stories with two bays, containing two and three-light casements, and a one-bay projection to the right with a two-light casement and a catslide roof. The first floor behind the gabled projection has a two-light casement. Inside, the left-hand room of the cross passage has a modern grate and a large depressed arch opening to the left, with chamfered beams featuring stops arranged in a row to the right.
Local climate
Knight's Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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