Ballifants is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Farmhouse.
Ballifants
- WRENN ID
- standing-cupola-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ballifants, Ash Priors
- OS grid reference
- ST 155 293
- Coordinates
- 51.05757, -3.2063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ballifants is an early 19th-century farmhouse located in Ash Priors. It is constructed from red sandstone with coursed, squared masonry and features slate roofs. The building has a 20th-century external stack on the left, while the original stack is concealed behind the parapet of a Tudor-style tower. The farmhouse is one and a half storeys tall and includes a two-storey hexagonal crenellated tower on the right, which has a string course and a coved cornice on the left.
All windows are three-light wooden hollow chamfered mullions with plate glass. The main block features two gabled dormers with hood moulds and finials. On the ground floor, there is a window on either side of a single-storey gabled porch, which has brick kneelers, a hood mould, and an early 19th-century Tudor-style door. The overall design is picturesque and similar in style to Greenway House and part of the Sandhill Park estate. The Ballifants family is recorded as residents in Ash Priors since 1643, suggesting that this house may be built on the site of an earlier dwelling.
Local climate
Ballifants receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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