Old Ditch Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Old Ditch Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-glass-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Ditch Farmhouse, Westbury, BA5 1HN
- OS grid reference
- ST 501 493
- Coordinates
- 51.2411, -2.71524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Ditch Farmhouse is a farmhouse with late 18th century to early 19th century features, although its core is older. The building is rendered and colorwashed, topped with a Bridgwater patent triple-Roman tile roof that has coped verges and end brick stacks. It stands two storeys high and has four bays with 3-light casements. The door opening is located in the second bay and features a 6-panelled door, with the top two panels glazed and a hood supported by two slender wooden posts. There is a wing at right angles to the rear of the farmhouse.
Local climate
Old Ditch Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 applications
- 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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