The Oval is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. House.
The Oval
- WRENN ID
- strange-rafter-vale
- 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 Oval, 17, West Street, Dunster, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 989 434
- Coordinates
- 51.18172, -3.44653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oval, located at 17 West Street in Dunster, is a 17th-century building that has undergone later alterations. It is constructed of rubble sandstone and features a slate roof with eaves. The building is two storeys high, with the left half of the frontage slightly projecting forward. On the first floor, there are four windows with leaded iron casements set in wooden frames. The ground floor has three later wooden casements. The central entrance consists of a square-headed door opening beneath a wooden lintel, with a recessed heavy oak chamfered and flat-arched door frame, leading to a stable-type door.
Local climate
The Oval 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- No related consent applications matched
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