Bush Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

Bush Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winding-gargoyle-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 March 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bush Farmhouse, Foss Way, Babcary, TA11 7DS
OS grid reference
ST 556 289
Coordinates
51.05786, -2.63461
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bush Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1800. It is constructed from local grey lias stone that has been cut and squared, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof featuring stone slate base courses and stone chimney stacks. The building has an L-plan shape with chamfered corners and stands two storeys tall with a three-bay north elevation. The pointed arched windows are all 2-light, with the upper windows being very small. The lower windows have transoms across the springing and feature Y-tracery. In the second bay on the lower level, there are a pair of doors set in an almost semi-circular arch, which are plain and topped with a semi-circular fanlight. All arches are detailed with voussoirs. There is a single-storey extension on the east side, covered by a clay pantiled roof, which includes a 12-pane sash window. The south elevation has been rendered, and steel casement windows have been inserted. The interior has not been seen but appears to have changed very little.

Local climate

Bush Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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