Bonniton is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. Former toll house.
Bonniton
- WRENN ID
- outer-plinth-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- Former toll house
- Address
- Bonniton, Bonniton Lane, Dunster, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 980 425
- Coordinates
- 51.17315, -3.46039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bonniton is a former Bonding Toll House built in 1708 and rebuilt in the mid-19th century in the style of the Luttrell Estate. The building is constructed of random rubble and features double Roman tiles. It has one and a half storeys, with two irregular gable dormers that have plain barge boards. On the first floor, there are two windows: one with two lights and another with three lights, both featuring leaded casements. The ground floor has an earlier four-light oak moulded frame window on the left side and a three-light casement window on the right. There are pent roofs over the windows, and a similar pentice porch is located above the off-centre doorway, which is supported by carved brackets. The doorway features an earlier studded door with a mid-19th century surround. A tablet set into the wall at the first floor states, "This is Bonding toll house 1708."
Local climate
Bonniton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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