Old Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse or court house. 1 related planning application.
Old Court House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-porch-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse or court house
- Address
- Old Court House, Corston, BA2 9AP
- OS grid reference
- ST 694 653
- Coordinates
- 51.38634, -2.44063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Court House is a farmhouse or court house dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings and features a slate roof with coped raised verges. The building has three storeys.
On the ground floor, there are three 3-light casement windows, while the first floor has three 3-light and two 2-light windows. The top floor contains three 2-light windows. All windows are set in ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds. The ground and first floor 3-light windows on the left side have a continuous plain freestone band above them, along with freestone relieving arches over the 3-light windows.
There is a gabled projecting porch that is off-centre to the right, which features a moulded and 4-centre headed outer doorway. The inner doorway is ogee and ovolo moulded with a 4-centre head, along with sunken spandrels and shields.
Local climate
Old Court House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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