Tray's Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to North West is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Tray's Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to North West
- WRENN ID
- strange-attic-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Tray's Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to North West, Compton Street, Compton Dundon, TA11 6PS
- OS grid reference
- ST 493 334
- Coordinates
- 51.09839, -2.72499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tray's Farmhouse, dating from the 17th century, is a farmhouse that incorporates a former medieval chapel, with elements from the 14th century. The building is constructed from local stone that is cut and squared, with some sections featuring Ham stone ashlar. It has a plain clay tile roof with a simple gable on the house and clay pantiles with simple gables on the outbuilding, along with brick chimney stacks.
The farmhouse is designed in a T-plan and is two storeys high with four bays, plus an extension on the southeast gable. The windows are casements, with two-light windows above and three-light windows below; the lower bay has four blank spaces. All windows feature horizontal glazing bars and timber lintels. In the second bay, there is a 19th-century part-glazed door set in a heavy frame within a plain opening. The extension is set lower and has a clay pantile roof, with small-pane casements at both levels.
The former chapel is located across the north gable of the house and features an offset buttress on the southwest corner that reaches full height, as well as a half-height buttress of triangular plan on the west corner. The southwest gable has two simple windows, one of which is unglazed and has vertical iron bars. On the southeast return, there is a small circular window with curvilinear tracery set high. The northeast gable at the upper level retains the remains of a 14th-century traceried window with a label, which has been converted into a doorway with lower double doors. There is a lean-to extension on the northwest face. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Tray's Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to North West receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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