The Farmers Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1983. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Farmers Arms
- WRENN ID
- vast-spire-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Farmers Arms, Combe Florey
- OS grid reference
- ST 151 316
- Coordinates
- 51.07823, -3.21212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Farmers Arms is a dwelling that has been converted into a public house. It dates back to the 15th century and was enlarged in the 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. The building is rendered over cob and random rubble, featuring a hipped thatched roof with a brick stack on the right and a stone stack on the left. It is arranged in a northwest-southeast orientation, with the original 15th-century open hall house at the northern end, which was later ceiled and extended in the 17th century.
The structure has one and a half storeys and displays irregularly placed windows, all of which are from the 20th century, except for two 2-light mullioned dormers on the outer left. There are four dormer casements, with a catslide roof projecting over a bread oven located between the second and third dormers. A chamfered doorway is situated to the right, leading to a slightly recessed two-bay section that has a thatched gabled porch to the left and another casement to the right. There is also a larger thatched gabled porch that provides access to a buttressed addition, which is now used as a kitchen.
Inside, the entire ground floor has been opened up, except for the kitchen, which backs onto an open fireplace featuring a chamfered bressummer. The fireplace at the northern end was inserted into the open hall during the 17th century. The interior also includes chamfered beams with stops and exposed jointed crucks.
Local climate
The Farmers Arms receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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