South Harp Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
South Harp Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-casement-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- South Harp Farmhouse, South Petherton, South Somerset, TA13 5LP
- OS grid reference
- ST 445 151
- Coordinates
- 50.93352, -2.79086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Harp Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse that may have origins dating back to the 16th century, although it has been modified over time. The building is constructed from cut and squared Ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a thatched roof with coped gables. It has a 'U'-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall with four bays.
On the ground floor, there are hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses, complete with labels, internal vertical iron bars, and iron-framed opening lights; bays one and two have four-light windows, while bay four has a five-light window. Above these, there are 20th-century timber casements. Bay three features a six-flush-panel door that is sheltered by a 19th-century brick and ashlar porch, which has a thatched roof behind a coped gable, topped with an obelisk finial. The porch has a segmental-arched doorway with a pair of 20th-century glazed doors.
On the gable, there is a fire insurance plaque depicting Britannia, inscribed with "West of England/Exeter (Company)." A 20th-century window is present in the west gable, and there is a single-storey range extending from the rear, which has a clay-tiled roof. The east end of this range includes a two-storey extension that projects northwards, with a roof ridge that is slightly higher than the main roof. This extension features a 20th-century casement window and shows signs of two blocked openings and two stones from a pointed archway. The north gable of this extension is built in Flemish bond brickwork with ashlar quoins. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
South Harp Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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