Foxcombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Farmhouse.
Foxcombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-niche-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Foxcombe Farmhouse, High Road, Castle Cary
- OS grid reference
- ST 634 298
- Coordinates
- 51.06681, -2.52292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foxcombe Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of Cary stone that is cut and squared, with Doulting stone dressings, and features a Welsh slate roof with overhung gables. The building has brick chimney stacks at both ends and in the middle.
The farmhouse stands two storeys high with an attic and consists of four bays, with the first bay being of a different but still early construction. Plain pilasters are present at each end of the main section. The windows are ovolo-moulded with mullions and labels, featuring rectangular leaded panes and iron-framed opening lights. All windows are three-light, except for the lower bays two and four, which are four-light. The lower bay three has a six-panelled door with glazed toplights, set into an open stone porch supported by slim Doric columns and pilasters, topped with a simple entablature and a pitched coped gable.
There is a single-storey lean-to against the south gable and another against the north, both located behind a raked parapet. High in the north gable, there is a blocked attic window. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Foxcombe Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
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