Colley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. A C17 Farmhouse.
Colley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-newel-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Colley Farmhouse, Buckland St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- ST 256 141
- Coordinates
- 50.92169, -3.05943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Colley Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that was reroofed in the 19th century, with the west gable end rebuilt in the 20th century. It is constructed of random rubble local stone and has an asbestos slate roof that is hipped to the left. The building features brick stacks to the right of the central entrance and between the first and second bays on the right. The plan consists of three cells and a cross passage facing north, with a coeval or almost contemporary single bay addition at the west gable end.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a facade with two bays, one bay, and one bay. Most windows are late 19th to early 20th century wooden three-light casements, except for a 20th-century two-light window in the first-floor end bay on the right. The ground floor openings have wooden lintels, with the left side featuring three-light casements flanking a four-panel door. There is a 20th-century door leading to the through passage, a three-light casement, and another entrance in the end bay on the right.
Inside, the kitchen is located to the right of the through passage and includes a spice cupboard. It features steeply chamfered beads with step and run-out stops, and a depressed Tudor arch head doorframe leading from the through passage into the hall. The ceiling has a six-panel compartment design, and there is a cob wall to the inner roof with scroll stops to a chamfered beam that appears to have been used for storage for some time. The property is noted to have been referred to as Blindmore Manor in 1664 and was part of the nearby Forde Abbey estate in 1839.
Local climate
Colley Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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