Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Farmhouse.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
frozen-chimney-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 April 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse, Back Street, Ash
OS grid reference
ST 475 205
Coordinates
50.98229, -2.74797
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse, possibly originally two cottages, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings, and features double Roman clay tiled roofs between high stepped coped gables that suggest it may have once had a thatched roof. The building has brick chimney stacks at both ends and in the middle.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has four bays. The upper floor has 2-light horizontal-bar casement windows, while the ground floor features plain mullioned windows with beaded and architraved surrounds, except for the third bay which has no window. Between the first and second bays, there is an ashlar stone gabled porch with a Welsh slate roof, a chamfered cambered-arched doorway, and a 20th-century copy of this doorway in the third bay, which has a 19th-century door in the former and a part-glazed door in the latter. There is also a lean-to garage against the north gable.

The interior has not been seen, but it is reported to have an original two-room plan with gable fireplaces, and a third room was added later in the 18th or early 19th century.

Local climate

Church Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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