Myrtle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Myrtle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pitched-footing-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Myrtle Farmhouse, Back Lane, Montacute, TA15 6XF
- OS grid reference
- ST 499 168
- Coordinates
- 50.94918, -2.71428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse. The front is built of finely dressed Ham stone ashlar, while the sides and rear are of roughly cut and squared stone. The roof is slate, with a shallow slope between stepped, coped gables, and the end chimneys are of yellow brick. The farmhouse is two storeys high with three bays. It features a plinth and an eaves course. The windows are sash windows in plain openings; the outer bays have 16-pane windows, and the upper bay has a 12-pane window. A 6-flush-panelled door is set within a plain opening. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Myrtle Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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