High Street Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

High Street Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sheer-pewter-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
High Street Farmhouse, Lydford-On-Fosse, TA11 7DB
OS grid reference
ST 565 314
Coordinates
51.08106, -2.62188
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Street Farmhouse is an estate steward's house, now functioning as a farmhouse, built in the early 19th century for Lord Roundway. The building features coursed and squared lias stone, with hipped and gabled slate roofs, and moulded stone eaves cornices. The verges have moulded copings, and there are rubble stacks on both the right and left returns, with the apex renewed in concrete block.

The farmhouse is square in plan and designed in the Tudor Gothic style. It is two storeys high with a two-bay garden frontage beneath two front-facing gables. The ground floor has two-light stone-mullioned windows, each light topped with a 4-centred head and fitted with cast-iron casements that have lozenge-shaped panes and stopped labels. The first floor features two single-light openings that match the ground floor's style. To the right return, there is a door opening in a single-storey porch that conforms to the overall style, with a 4-centred arch door that has a studded surface and tracery.

Inside, a notable feature is the stone staircase with a plain wrought-iron handrail. There are also some reused 18th-century panelled doors and a fireplace on the ground floor to the right, which has a broad wooden bressumer. A cellar is located under the left half of the house, accessible by an external staircase at the rear, along with a further internal staircase.

Local climate

High Street Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2017
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