Range of Buildings, 30 Metres West of Farleigh Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Farmhouse.
Range of Buildings, 30 Metres West of Farleigh Castle
- WRENN ID
- rough-panel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- ST 797 569
- Coordinates
- 51.31117, -2.29201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This range of buildings, located 30 metres west of Farleigh Castle, was originally a farmhouse but is now used as a school. It dates from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure is built of random rubble Doulting stone and features a stone slate hipped roof. It has a two-storey 'U'-shaped plan with a five-window front and a central entrance. The ground floor has plain stone mullion and transom windows with 2- and 4-pane casements, while the first floor features 2-light stone mullion windows with stopped drip-moulds and a variety of casements. The rear of the building includes plain 2-light stone mullion windows and 20th-century casement windows.
The east side was refronted in the 18th century in a militarized Gothic style. The windows are retained by a front wall that has been raised to form a parapet with four slit openings. The central section is refaced in ashlar stone, flanked by diagonal two-stage buttresses and corbelled out round angle turrets with slit openings and bracketted and embattled parapets, although only one turret survives. The central entrance features a four-centre arched door opening, with a two-light window above it, as well as two cruciform openings and a central blocked quatrefoil opening. At the northwest corner, there is an octagonal tower added in the 18th century, which also has a bracketted and embattled parapet.
Local climate
Range of Buildings, 30 Metres West of Farleigh Castle receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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