Battleborough Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Farmhouse.

Battleborough Farmhouse

WRENN ID
solemn-pavement-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Battleborough Farmhouse, Brent Knoll
OS grid reference
ST 343 501
Coordinates
51.24706, -2.94237
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Battleborough Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, with a core that likely dates back to the 17th century. The front was remodeled in 1830, as indicated by a tablet on the right side that reads "J Harden 1830," accompanied by an heraldic shield. The building features stippled roughcast and a bitumenized slate roof that consists of two sections of slightly different heights, with coped verges and a central coping. There are three pairs of diagonally set rendered stacks, and the design reflects a Gothick style.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical facade with two bays on each side. It includes 3-light casements, where each light has a 4-centred head and stopped labels. The central door opening contains a six-panelled door that matches the overall style, and there is a rendered and gabled porch with a slate roof. An heraldic shield with a crest is positioned between the two right bays on the first floor, below raised lettering that states "Battleborough."

Inside, the right ground floor room features a cross-beamed ceiling and a wooden panelled east wall that includes a niche cupboard, likely dating from the first half of the 18th century.

Local climate

Battleborough Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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