The Great House is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. House. 1 related planning application.
The Great House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-entrance-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Great House, Great House Street, Timberscombe, Somerset, TA24 7TQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 956 421
- Coordinates
- 51.1693, -3.49348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great House is a house built around 1740, located on Great House Street in Timberscombe. The exterior features roughcast grooved to resemble ashlar, with a quoin pilaster strip on the left side, flat band string courses raised to the sills of the windows, and a moulded cornice. It has a shallow pitch slate roof and roughcast stacks at the gable ends. The building has a double pile plan and stands three storeys tall with five bays. The windows are segmental headed sash windows, with 15 panes on the second floor and 18 panes on the others. The central entrance includes a segmental headed 12-pane light above a raised and field panelled door, which has inset many paned lights.
To the right, there is a hipped single bay, two-storey addition featuring an 18-pane sash window. To the left, there is a three-bay service wing with a pyramid roof, which has 20th-century fenestration. At the rear, there are three gabled wings.
The interior, which has only been partially seen, includes 18th-century raised and fielded panelling in the ground floor room to the left of the panelled hall, a segmental archway, and a central stairway with urn balusters and some twisted balusters, as well as a cut string.
Local climate
The Great House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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