Kails Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Kails Farmhouse

WRENN ID
muffled-stronghold-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Kails Farmhouse, Whitelackington, TA19 9EF
OS grid reference
ST 378 163
Coordinates
50.94314, -2.88613
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kails Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 18th century, with possible earlier elements. It is constructed from coursed ham stone rubble and features a thatched roof with a stepped coped gable at the west end and a plain gable at the east. The building has two storeys and a five-bay south elevation, where bays four and five may be later additions. The windows in bays one, two, and three are horizontal-bar windows with three lights, while bay four has a two-light window. Between the lower bays two and three, there is a glazed door set in an open timber and slated porch, and bay five has a boarded door in a heavy frame.

On the east gable, there is a single-storey extension with a hipped thatched roof, which includes a doorway and a two-light casement window with internal vertical iron bars. Further east, there is another extension with a double-Roman clay tiled roof that connects to a former dairy building, which is set at right angles to the main structure and is currently in ruins as of January 1986. The north elevation is similar to the south, featuring two doorways, with the more westerly one having a concrete block and slated porch. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Kails Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% 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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