Throop Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Throop Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vast-belfry-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Throop Farmhouse, Throop Road, Abbas and Templecombe, BA8 0HR
- OS grid reference
- ST 717 231
- Coordinates
- 51.00692, -2.40409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Throop Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse constructed from locally sourced stone that has been cut and squared, featuring ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with concrete 'Ludlow' pattern tiles and has simple gables. The building is two storeys high and consists of five bays. A continuous string course runs above the ground floor windows, which are fitted with 2-light hollow chamfered mullioned windows that have plain casements. The central doorway is obscured by a 20th-century timber and glazed porch with a felted roof. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Throop 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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