Great House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.

Great House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
odd-gable-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Great House Farmhouse, Leigh-On-Mendip, BA3 5QZ
OS grid reference
ST 694 471
Coordinates
51.2224, -2.43941
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Great House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1596, although the rest of the structure dates from around 1650. It is built from Doulting rubble and features coped verges and a plain tile roof, along with two ashlar stacks with caps. The building has an "L"-shaped plan and stands two and a half storeys tall with five bays. It includes two, three, and four-light stone mullioned windows, most of which are chamfered, although the first bay on the ground floor has an ovolo moulded window. The ground floor openings have stopped labels. There is a central door opening with a chamfered four-centred surround, which contains a 20th-century glazed plank door, sheltered by a 20th-century gabled stone porch. A three-bay return is present on the left side, featuring an attic light. A date plaque on the right gable indicates the year 1596.

Local climate

Great House Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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