Lydeard Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lydeard Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusted-storey-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lydeard Farmhouse, Broomfield, TA5 2EG
- OS grid reference
- ST 228 327
- Coordinates
- 51.08884, -3.10267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lydeard Farmhouse is a 15th-century farmhouse with 17th-century elements, largely rebuilt in the early 19th century. The farmhouse has roughcast walls and a triple Roman tile roof, with brick stacks. It is two storeys high and has three bays, featuring 20th-century two-light casement windows. A projecting, pent-roofed porch contains a semi-circular-headed doorway, and an inner doorway with a six-panelled door. The interior includes a good 17th-century staircase with turned balusters and a pendant.
Local climate
Lydeard Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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