The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. A C16 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- small-niche-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, West Street, Hinton St. George
- OS grid reference
- ST 418 125
- Coordinates
- 50.90962, -2.82777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse is a semi-detached farmhouse that may date back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared ham stone, with ashlar dressings, and features a thatched roof with a stepped coped gable on the east side, continuing to the west, along with brick chimney stacks. The building is single-storey with attics and consists of six bays.
The windows are hollow-chamfer mullioned, set in chamfered recesses with labels, and all are three-light. The attic windows are two-light horizontal-bar casements integrated into the thatch, located in bays two, four, and five. There is a boarded door in bay three, framed heavily with a beaded and slightly chamfered design, positioned in a recess accessed by three steps. Between bays two and three, there is a projecting chimney breast featuring a band course and double offsets. A blocked window is present at the front of the east gable, with later casement windows added towards the rear.
Although the interior has not been seen, it has been reported to have a three-room cross passage plan. The hall contains a chamfered-arched fireplace in the north wall, while the parlour features a shell-hood recess where a window has been blocked. The third room has a stud and panelled partition. Most beams are cased, but one deep chamfered beam has a step and run-out stop, and another is shallow-chamfered with a cyna-recta stop. Additionally, the remains of a jointed cruck are visible in the wall near the west gable, although the roof frame has been raised at some point. Attached to the west gable is a structure known as Cobbles.
Local climate
The Old Farmhouse 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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