Wick Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Farmhouse.

Wick Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fading-lintel-swallow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1968
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Wick Farmhouse, Warminster Road, Norton St. Philip
OS grid reference
ST 787 572
Coordinates
51.31363, -2.30644
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wick Farmhouse is a farmhouse with probable origins in the 13th century, with alterations from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of random rubble Doulting stone and features a stone slate gabled roof with a quarter hip on the left side and rubble stone chimney stacks off the ridge. The building is two stories and originally had an 'L'-plan but has been truncated to a rectangular shape. It has five bays and a four-window frontage, with the entrance located between the third and fourth windows. The fenestration is mixed, including one sash window, one stone-framed oval window with four keys, one 19th-century casement window, and three two-light moulded stone mullioned window frames with casements.

The most notable external feature is an obtuse pointed stone door frame of early English style, which has deeply undercut roll mouldings and arched drip-moulds. Inside, the ground floor has stop-moulded chamfered beams of excessive proportions and a large medieval fireplace, which is partly concealed and has a heavy wooden lintel. The roof features arch-braced raised cruck frames, stop-chamfered plates, two stop-chamfered purlins with diagonal arched windbracing, and a heavily blackened square ridge piece. It is said that the farmhouse was once the property of Hinton Charterhouse Priory.

Local climate

Wick 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 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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