Old Burford Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. Farmhouse.
Old Burford Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dim-gutter-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Burford Farmhouse, Summers Hill Lane, Pilton
- OS grid reference
- ST 589 418
- Coordinates
- 51.17419, -2.58819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Burford Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with restoration work from the 19th century. It is constructed from coursed and squared rubble and features a triple Roman tile roof with a crested ridge. The building has one tall concrete block chimney on a projecting gabled rubble base, one octagonal ashlar chimney with a crenellated cap, and one square ashlar chimney with a moulded cap, along with coped verges. The farmhouse is arranged in an L-plan, likely the remnants of a larger structure. It has a single storey and attic, as well as two storeys, with a total of two bays on the right and one bay on the left. The left bay is under a front-facing gable with a pierced finial, and there is a two-storey flat-roofed canted bay with lead cresting. Each floor features an ovolo moulded stone mullioned window with five lights, and there is a similarly moulded single light window on the gable face. To the right, there is a single ovolo moulded stone mullioned window on the ground floor. The door opening is nearly central and has a chamfered dressed stone surround with a plank door, and a narrow single light window is set above it. There is a three-bay, single-storey addition set back to the right, which has 20th-century casements and a central bay under a coped gable with an obelisk finial, along with a 20th-century door. Inside, there are some original features, including a cross-beam ceiling on the ground floor and a fireplace in a dressed stone surround on the first floor.
Local climate
Old Burford Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% 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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