White's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

White's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quartered-spandrel-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
White's Farmhouse, Buckland St. Mary, TA20 3JJ
OS grid reference
ST 283 151
Coordinates
50.93102, -3.02066
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White's Farmhouse is a probable 16th-century farmhouse, with restoration work dated 1699. It is constructed of random rubble local stone with ashlar dressings and cob in the outshot, and has a double-Roman tiled roof with coped verges. A 20th-century brick stack is located to the left of the through passage, while a brick stack is in the right gable end. The farmhouse has a two-cell and cross passage plan, facing south, with an outshot addition and a former agricultural building attached to the east return.

The two-storey, three-bay facade has a 2-light hollow-chamfered mullioned window on the first floor, with a datestone inscribed "1699" between the first and second bays. The ground floor features 4-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds, flanking a central wide doorway with a monopitch-roofed porch and coped verges. A similar 3-light window is on the left gable ground floor, above a 2-light window. Stepped buttresses are visible. The right return has a lower, double-Roman tiled roofed, four-bay range.

Inside, a plank and muntin screen with chamfered details separates the through passage. The west-end room has a blocked opening against the rear wall, a steeply chamfered beam with scroll stops, and an open fireplace. The former kitchen has a bressummer beam cut by the entrance to the wing, likely the site of a former curing chamber. A bread oven is located to the north. Two pairs of jointed cruck trusses are visible, and the roof space was not inspected.

Local climate

White's Farmhouse 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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