Court House is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1984. Magistrate's court. 5 related planning applications.
Court House
- WRENN ID
- distant-doorway-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1984
- Type
- Magistrate's court
- Address
- Court House, Old Weston Road, Flax Bourton, BS48 1UL
- OS grid reference
- ST 519 695
- Coordinates
- 51.42314, -2.69315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Court House, formerly known as Long Ashton Magistrate's Court, is a Grade II listed building constructed between 1857 and 1858 by John Norton. It features coursed rubble with freestone dressings and a double Roman tiled roof, along with panelled ashlar stacks, all designed in a late Gothic style. The building is a single storey with attics that have gabled half dormers.
The façade consists of a 1:4:1 bay arrangement, where the outer bays are advanced as two-storey gabled wings. On the ground floor, these wings have three-light cross windows with chamfered mullions and surrounds, while the first floor features three-light windows with shouldered segmental heads, all set beneath relieving arches. The central bays contain similar two-light windows.
A central gabled porch with side buttresses leads to a pointed doorway that is topped with a hoodmould. Lean-to porches are present in the re-entrant angles of the wings.
Local climate
Court House receives an average of 850 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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