Holmes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. Farmhouse.
Holmes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-gateway-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Holmes Farmhouse, Barford Road, Spaxton
- OS grid reference
- ST 231 365
- Coordinates
- 51.12301, -3.09929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holmes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, which was rebuilt in the early 19th century. It features roughcast walls and a slate roof, with brick and roughcast stacks. The building has a cross-passage plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, comprising eight bays. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars. There is a door opening that contains a half-glazed door, and a glazed verandah on the ground floor. Additionally, there is a six-panelled door.
Local climate
Holmes Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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