Impens Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. House. 1 related planning application.

Impens Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 March 1963
Type
House
Address
Impens Farmhouse, North Petherton Road, TA7 0BB
OS grid reference
ST 298 316
Coordinates
51.07971, -3.00242
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Impens Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The exterior is roughcast with a slate roof that has wide eaves and brick stacks. It stands two storeys high and features renewed 2 and 3-light stone-mullioned windows on the ground floor, which have drips. There is a 3-light moulded wooden-mullioned window to the left of the first floor, complete with a stopped label. To the left, there is a two-storey wing that mainly has 3-light 19th-century casements. The entrance has a 19th-century four-panelled door and a 20th-century trellis. At the back, there is a two-storey 19th-century wing that is at right angles to the main structure. Inside, there is a panelled room with a carved overmantel dated 1649, along with other lesser features.

Local climate

Impens Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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