Woodhouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 2004. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Woodhouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-merlon-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 2004
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Woodhouse Farmhouse, Rimpton, BA22 8AA
- OS grid reference
- ST 617 226
- Coordinates
- 51.00168, -2.54626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodhouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, which was remodeled and extended in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features rendered cob walls and a steeply pitched gable-ended roof covered in clay patent tiles, with brick stacks at the gable ends. The building has a two-room plan, with a parlour on the left (west) and a kitchen on the right (east), both heated by gable-end stacks. An integral pantry outshut is located behind the kitchen, and a larger dairy outshut is behind the parlour, likely added in the 18th century. There is a late 18th or early 19th-century outbuilding on the left (west) end and a 19th-century outshut on the right (east) end.
The farmhouse is two storeys with an attic and has a symmetrical three-bay south front. The ground floor features three-light casements, while the first floor has two-light casements, all with horizontal glazing bars and dating from the 19th century. The central doorway has a late 20th-century plank door. The right outshut has a lean-to roof and a 20th-century plank door, while the left outbuilding has a plank door and a four-pane window. There are small 18th-century two-light attic windows in the end gables. The main roof at the rear (north) extends over the outshuts, with the original smaller outshut on the left projecting and a painted brick outshut from the 18th century on the right, featuring a brick stack in the angle and various casements.
Inside, the former kitchen on the right has a deeply chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops and a large fireplace with unchamfered dressed limestone jambs, a large slightly cambered and chamfered bressumer without stops, and a brick oven. The smaller parlour on the left has a deeply chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops, but its fireplace is blocked by a 20th-century tiled chimneypiece, with a cupboard to the side featuring panelled doors. The ground floor has six-panel doors, while the first floor has 18th and 19th-century plank doors. The roof features a 5-bay tenoned-purlin collar-truss design from the 18th century, with lapped and pegged collars.
Local climate
Woodhouse Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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