School Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. A Medieval Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

School Farmhouse

WRENN ID
twisted-flue-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1959
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Medieval
Address
School Farmhouse, Silver Street, Muchelney, TA10 0DN
OS grid reference
ST 428 243
Coordinates
51.01585, -2.81542
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

School Farmhouse is a farmhouse with medieval origins that was reshaped in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is built from lias stone, featuring a red brick facade in English garden wall bond and Ham stone dressings. The building has a thatched roof with a stepped coped gable on the west side and a plain east gable, along with brick chimney stacks.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has four bays. On the ground floor, there are four-light hollow chamfered mullioned windows with flat heads and square labels, featuring rectangular leaded panes. Some of these windows have iron framed opening lights with external stays. On the upper floor, there are three-light leaded casements, also with iron framed opening lights. The second bay on the ground floor has a boarded door set in a heavy frame beneath a timber lintel, which is covered by a 20th-century curved metal porch hood. There is a 20th-century casement window in the west gable and a proudstanding stone chimney stack with offsets on the east gable.

Internally, the farmhouse has been somewhat altered in the 19th century, but the roof frame retains jointed crucks with windbraces. Attached to the southeast corner is a single-storey stone building with a thatched roof, featuring a half-timbered gable panel and a small window that is now blocked.

Local climate

School Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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