Highway Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Highway Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-niche-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Highway Farmhouse, Main Street, Ash, TA12 6NT
- OS grid reference
- ST 467 207
- Coordinates
- 50.98412, -2.75952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highway Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse featuring a facade of ham stone ashlar, with coursed rubble on the sides and rear. The building has a double Roman clay tile roof with a shallow pitch, characterized by stepped coped gables and brick chimney stacks. It stands two storeys tall and consists of three bays. The windows are sash style with 16 panes set in plain openings. In the lower bay, there is a 6-panel door located in a recess with a plain raised surround. Additionally, there is a lean-to garage attached to the west gable. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Highway 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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