Sockety Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. Farmhouse.
Sockety Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-footing-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sockety Farmhouse, Sandy Hole, Merriott
- OS grid reference
- ST 440 136
- Coordinates
- 50.91979, -2.79685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sockety Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse built in the late 18th century. It features a façade made of red brick in Flemish bond, with ashlar dressings, and is constructed from Ham stone that has been cut and squared. The roof is plain clay tiles, set between stepped coped gables, and there are brick chimney stacks at each end. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a three-bay south elevation that faces at right angles to the road.
The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered recesses with labels; the outer bays have three-light windows, while the first floor has a two-light window. In the lower bay two, there is a 20th-century door in a recess, surrounded by plain ashlar and topped with a moulded stone hood supported by stone brackets. A small single-light window with a timber lintel is located in the west gable, while the rest of the windows are 20th-century timber casements. There is an outshut at the rear of the building.
Attached to the east gable is a two-storey structure made of roughly cut and squared stone, which has an offset at the first floor level. This building has a Welsh slate roof with a stepped coped east gable and a gabletted finial. It features two three-light casements on the first floor, with the more easterly window displaying an earlier design with rectangular leaded lights and an iron-framed opening light. The interior of the farmhouse has not been seen. Sockety Farmhouse is noted as one of the later 18th-century developments located north of the main village.
Local climate
Sockety 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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