Preston Farmhouse and Garden Boundary Walls to East and West is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1956. Farmhouse.

Preston Farmhouse and Garden Boundary Walls to East and West

WRENN ID
open-dormer-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1956
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Preston Farmhouse and Garden Boundary Walls to East and West, Milverton
OS grid reference
ST 137 262
Coordinates
51.02921, -3.23101
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Preston Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with enlargements made in the 18th century and mid-19th century. It features roughcast walls, pantile roofing, projecting eaves, a bell cast roof, and coped verges on the left side, while the right side has a hipped roof. There are stone stacks on the left and between the third and fourth bays on the right. The original block faces south and is accompanied by a wall that encloses a V-shaped garden. A long extension was added in the 19th century at the north-west corner, with a 20th-century entrance porch positioned at the angle on the east front. The south front has two storeys and four bays, with two and three-light casements. There is a full-height projection at the south-east corner and a thatched entrance porch in the outer bay on the left. The western wall extends to form the garden wall, which is approximately 1.5 metres high and returns to the south-eastern corner of the house. The interior has not been viewed.

Local climate

Preston Farmhouse and Garden Boundary Walls to East and West receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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