Church Farmhouse, and Attached Sunday School Room, with Boundary Walling and Railings on South Side is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. House. 4 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse, and Attached Sunday School Room, with Boundary Walling and Railings on South Side
- WRENN ID
- hushed-stronghold-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, and Attached Sunday School Room, with Boundary Walling and Railings on South Side, Church Street, Lopen
- OS grid reference
- ST 427 144
- Coordinates
- 50.92695, -2.81661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a detached house dating from the 17th century, with modifications made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The end of the north wing was converted into a Sunday School during the 1880s. The building is constructed of ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings, while the south elevation is rendered and colourwashed. It features a thatched roof with a plain north gable and stepped coped gables on the south crosswing, along with brick chimney stacks.
The house has a 'T'-plan and is two storeys high, with a south elevation comprising three bays. It has sash windows with 20 panes in plain openings. The lower centre bay contains a five-fielded-panel door set in a semi-circular arched recess, topped by a plain fanlight. The north wing, which is integral to the house, has two bays with three-light horizontal-bar casement windows and a 20th-century door in a recess on the lower bay of the west side; the east side is plain.
The Sunday School room features a gabled porch on the west side, with a Welsh slate roof, a four-centred outer arch, and a plain boarded inner door. To the north of the porch, there is a blocked stairlight and traces of other blocked openings, along with two 20th-century metal windows in each wall. The north gable includes a 19th-century two-light traceried window in a 14th-century style without a label. The interiors have not been seen.
Approximately 2 metres south of the crosswing, there is a low stone ashlar wall topped with wrought-iron railings featuring alternate arrowheads and hoops, and cast-iron urn finials on arch-braced standards. A 20th-century wrought-iron gate is positioned opposite the doorway. This boundary walling and railings contribute to the overall setting of the house.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse, and Attached Sunday School Room, with Boundary Walling and Railings on South Side 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 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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