Rectory Farmhouse and Rectory Farmhouse South is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Rectory Farmhouse and Rectory Farmhouse South
- WRENN ID
- vacant-gable-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rectory Farmhouse and Rectory Farmhouse South, High Street, Queen Camel, BA22 7NE
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01837, -2.57664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Farmhouse and Rectory Farmhouse South is a detached farmhouse, now divided, with origins in the 17th century and subsequent modifications. It is constructed of local lias stone, squared and cut, with Ham stone dressings. The roof is tiled, with Roman clay tiles between coped gables, and features a ball finial to the south side. There are brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has five bays. Most windows are horizontal bar casements, although the upper bays 1 and 2 contain small panes. Lower windows, except for the one in bay 5, have timber lintols; the window in bay 5 has a voussoired segmental-arched head. A window in the lower bay 3 is offset to balance a door situated between bays 2 and 3. This door is set within a moulded four-centre archway with incised spandrils and a square label. An additional plain bay was added to the north of bay 5, and bay 5 itself is likely an addition. The interior was not inspected, but the outer room of the original farmhouse has a nine-bay chamfered bead ceiling. To the rear, there is an ovolo-mould mullioned window and doorway.
Local climate
Rectory Farmhouse and Rectory Farmhouse South receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 7 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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