No 28 Vine House and Two Cottages to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Farmhouse.
No 28 Vine House and Two Cottages to Rear
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- No 28 Vine House and Two Cottages to Rear, Old Town, Chard Town
- OS grid reference
- ST 323 082
- Coordinates
- 50.87021, -2.9624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 28 Vine House and two cottages to the rear is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, with two 19th-century cottages. The building is finished in painted roughcast and has a slate roof with stepped coping on the left gable end. The rear extension features pantiles and rendered stacks. The structure has a single-depth plan with a rear outshut and two cottages located to the rear right.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The window on the far right is above a carriage entrance, while the rest of the house is symmetrical with a central hall. The 18th-century door has raised-and-fielded lower panels and was altered in the 19th century to include two long glazed panels above. There is a planked carriage door to the far right. All windows are 19th-century three-light casements with glazing bars, except for two-light casements over both doors; the one above the house door is early 20th-century and lacks glazing bars on the lower half.
At the rear, there are two two-storey cottages, each with a one-window range. The cottage on the left, closest to the house, is early 19th-century and features 8/8-pane sashes, while the cottage on the right is later 19th-century with 2/2-pane sashes.
Inside the farmhouse, the left room contains an early 18th-century fireplace surround with a mantelshelf. To the left of the fireplace is a fitted cupboard in a semi-circular arch with a moulded wood keystone. The top cupboard has two doors with raised-and-fielded panels shaped to fit the arch, and the central rail includes three small deep drawers along with a two-door cupboard below, also with raised-and-fielded panels. To the right, there is a full-height cupboard with raised-and-fielded panels and H-hinges. Substantial beams run parallel to the facade, and the staircase at the rear features turned balusters and bracketed treads.
Local climate
No 28 Vine House and Two Cottages to Rear receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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