Brown's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. A C18 House. 4 related planning applications.

Brown's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winter-keep-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1958
Type
House
Address
Brown's Farmhouse, High Street, Hinton St. George, TA17 8SE
OS grid reference
ST 420 126
Coordinates
50.91032, -2.82578
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brown's Farmhouse is a detached house dated 1713, although it has been significantly rebuilt. The facade is made of ham stone ashlar, which is roughly cut and squared on the sides and rear. The roof features double Roman clay tiles between high coped gables, indicating it may have originally had thatch, and it has precast concrete gutters along with brick end chimney stacks.

The building has two storeys with an attic and consists of four bays. The third bay includes an open porch with a room above it. There is a plinth and a string course between the floors. The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in wave-mould recesses with labels, with three lights above and four lights below. The lower part of bay three features a moulded cambered-arched doorway with a boarded door, which is sheltered by the open porch that has Doric outer columns but no inner pilaster. Above the porch, there is a 1+3+1 light square bay window with a label and a gable that contains the datestone inscribed 'S/IP/1713'.

The east gable has two later casement windows, while the west gable features a blind three-light window on the first floor and a pair of two-light windows in the attic under a shared label. There is a 19th-century extension at the rear. Although the interior was not seen, it is reported to have a three-room plan with a passage leading to a staircase, likely in its original position, while the earlier roof frame has been completely replaced.

Local climate

Brown's 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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