Kingston Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1983. Farmhouse.
Kingston Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- brooding-clay-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kingston Farmhouse, Chipstable
- OS grid reference
- ST 023 262
- Coordinates
- 51.02686, -3.39384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingston Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the early 17th century but has been extensively rebuilt and reroofed in the early 19th century. It was also refenestrated and restored in 1984. The exterior is rendered over rubble, with some cob in the outshot, and features a slate roof, boxed eaves on the facade, and brick stacks at the gable ends and center right.
The layout is probably a three-cell design with a cross passage, and a subsidiary entrance has been added in the former kitchen end bay on the right. The rear outshots have been raised to two stories, possibly including a stair turret. The farmhouse has two stories and a four-window frontage, all featuring late 20th-century three-light leaded wooden casements that are said to be replicas of earlier windows. There is a plank door with a light in the unlit end bay on the right, and the entrance is located in the second bay on the left, featuring a six-panel door with a rectangular light above and a renewed flat-roofed porch supported by chamfered square columns.
The interior has only been partially observed, but it includes a 19th-century kingpost roof, a kitchen with a chamfered bressumer beam, and a chamfered beam with step and run-out stops that were reused when the ceiling was raised. The positioning of the kitchen, where one would typically expect the inner room, is noted as unusual. The house is said to have been rebuilt after a fire.
Local climate
Kingston Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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