Sock Dennis Farm House and Boundary Wall to North is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Farmhouse.
Sock Dennis Farm House and Boundary Wall to North
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sock Dennis Farm House and Boundary Wall to North, Ilchester
- OS grid reference
- ST 516 213
- Coordinates
- 50.9893, -2.68989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sock Dennis Farm House is a detached farmhouse dated 1723, which was reshaped in the early 19th century. It is constructed from local lias stone that is cut and squared, with Ham stone and Portland stone dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and features coped gables, along with ashlar chimney stacks that have moulded caps. The building has a double roof plan and is two storeys high with an attic, presenting a three-bay south elevation.
The outer bays contain 16-pane sash windows with Ham stone cills and false keystoned lias lintels. The centre upper bay features a 20-pane window with a semi-circular head and a matching lias stone arch. Below this is a part-glazed door situated in an open stone porch made of Portland stone, which is supported by Doric columns and pilasters, topped with a plain entablature and a flat roof.
The east gable is plain, while the west gable has two 16-pane sash windows in the attic, each with keystoned Ham lintels. There is a central lead downpipe with a stackhead dated 1723, and a central closed stone porch with a stone slate roof, plain side windows, and a Regency pattern six-panel inner door, along with a small 20th-century window to the left.
On the north elevation, there are two bays with 16-pane sash windows above, and 18th-century hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in wave mould recesses. These windows have no labels and feature three-centre arched lights with incised spandrils. The interior has not been seen.
About 4 metres north of the house, there is a 32-metre length of stone plank walling that has an angled return to a barn, which adds to the setting of the house. Sock Dennis was recognized as an early separate settlement by at least the 13th century.
Local climate
Sock Dennis Farm House and Boundary Wall to North receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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